Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Plaster cast of figure of Ashurnasirpal II in relief holding a poppy

PC/056
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Original: 716-713BC. Neo-Assyrian Palace of Sargon II, Iraq. Currently in the collection of The Louvre, Paris, France. Beard "Musées Nationaux Moulage, Paris" maker's stamp.

Musées Nationaux Moulage, Paris

Plaster cast of female head

PC/065
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

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Plaster cast of female form

PC/198
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Fragment of femal form, hips to shoulders. Hellenistic style.

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Plaster cast of Elders of the Apocalypse (Royal Portal Chatres Cathedral)

PC/033A
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.

Original: Portal figures from Chartres Cathedral. The central tympanum illustrates the Apocalypse with a central Christ surrounded by twenty-four Elders.

Plaster cast of Elders of the Apocalypse (Royal Portal Chatres Cathedral)

PC/033B
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.

Original: Portal figures from Chartres Cathedral. The central tympanum illustrates the Apocalypse with a central Christ surrounded by twenty-four Elders.

Plaster cast of Dione and Aphrodite (From Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite)

PC/017
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.

Original: Figures from the east pediment of the Parthenon depicting the birth of Athena. The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, about 438-432 BC. The two figures are thought to be Dione cradling her daughter Aphrodite; they are remarkable for their naturalistic rendering of anatomy blended with a harmonious representation of complex draperies. However, another suggestion is that the two figures on the right are the personification of the Sea (Thalassa) in the lap of the Earth (Gaia). Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.

Plaster cast of decorative relief panel with vine

PC/089
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Panel with carved vine grapes and leaves.

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Plaster cast of decorative relief panel with initial H and French royal crown

PC/095
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

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Plaster cast of decorative relief panel with classical figures from lid of chest

PC/083
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Decorative panel showing classical figures; female figures surround the central panel of a male holding some sort of tool. Lower panel shows a central female figure flanked by two contorted males. Original: Michelangelo. Currently in the collection of The National Museum of Bargello, Florence, Italy.

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Plaster cast of decorative relief panel from a royal palace

PC/081
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: French, late c16th century. Showing cherubs with parrots, shells and urns. Also displays insignia with three fleur de lis (possibly signifying French monarchy).

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Plaster cast of decorative capital

PC/102
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

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Plaster cast of decorated pilasters of a doorway

PC/171A
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

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Plaster cast of decorated pilasters of a doorway

PC/171B
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

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Plaster cast of decorated pilaster capital, possibly from Erechtheion

PC/096
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Phidias, 400 BC. Marble. Possibly from Erectheion, the temple dedicated to Athena on the Acropolis. Stylised forms of nature. Athens, Greece.

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Plaster cast of decorated panel with stylised leaves

PC/178
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Annotated "F Meacci" and "260" and some graffiti.

Meacci, F

Plaster cast of decorated Corinthian capital

PC/104B
Item
19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Attic of Corinthian order, but unusually highly decorated.

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Plaster cast of decorated capital with stylised leaves

PC/101A
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of decorated capital, part of a set with pilaster

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Plaster cast of Crouching Venus (Crouching Aphrodite)

PC/024
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Also known as: Venere nel bagno, Venere nella conchiglia. Likely to be a Roman adaptation of Doidalses' Crouching Aphrodite (a lost Greek original from the 3rd century BC). Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.

Plaster cast of Crouching Discobolos

PC/010
Item
19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.

Original: The Discobolus of Myron is a famous lost Greek bronze original that was completed towards the end of the Severe period, c460-450 BC. It is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, such as the first to be recovered, the Palombara Discobolus, or smaller scaled versions in bronze. Bought from Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the British Museum, London, UK.

Plaster cast of cow’s head with one anatomical half

PC/194
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Annotated "Briouiol" or similar.

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Plaster cast of cornice frieze decorated with bands of ornament and masks

PC/141A
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Ovolo ornamentation, with a metope engraved with masks.

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Plaster cast of cornice frieze decorated with bands of ornament and masks

PC/141B
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Ovolo ornamentation, with a metope engraved with masks.

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Plaster cast of cornice fragment decorated with egg and dart

PC/135
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Bears illegible maker's stamp, possibly that of "Commission Royale Belge Atelier du Moulage, Bruxelles".

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Plaster cast of cornice decorated with egg and dart motif

PC/136A
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

3 straps of decoration. Bears "J Giusti & Co, makers, St Vincent St, Glasgow" maker's stamp. Annotated "347".

J Giusti & Co

Plaster cast of cornice decorated with egg and dart motif

PC/136B
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

3 straps of decoration. Bears "J Giusti & Co, makers, St Vincent St, Glasgow" maker's stamp. Annotated "347".

J Giusti & Co

Plaster cast of corner frieze with mythical creatures

PC/090
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Capital with two carved grotesques.

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Plaster cast of Corinthian capital with stylised acanthus

PC/139
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

The Corinthian order is the most richly carved of all the orders. According to the architectural historian Vitruvius, the column was created by the sculptor Callimachus, probably an Athenian, who drew acanthus leaves growing around a votive basket. Annotated "R. 24D".

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Plaster cast of Corinthian capital

PC/104A
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Attic of ionic order, but unusually highly decorated. Bears illegible maker's stamp, possibly that of "Commission Royale Belge Atelier du Moulage, Bruxelles".

Commission Royale Belge Atelier du Moulage Bruxelles

Plaster cast of corbel of angel playing lute

PC/211
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Medieval style.

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Plaster cast of console

PC/215
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Scrolled support for cornice or frieze.

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Plaster cast of classical entablature comprising architrave, frieze and cornice

PC/100
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Shows stylised natural forms.

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Plaster cast of chimera in relief

PC/209
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Chimera in relief, architectural fragment, probably part of larger scene or collection of panels due to lack of formal border. Annotated ""Chimere", "Hove" (or similar), and "PH-1"(in red).

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Plaster cast of cherub with horns

PC/212
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Cast in dark brown. Head of cherub holding onto two horns, between two carved snakes and fruit.

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Plaster cast of cherub with dolphin

PC/192
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Andrea Verrocchio. Currently in the National Museum of Bargello, Florence, Italy.

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Plaster cast of cherub roundel with wings

PC/112
Item
19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Head of Cherub with wings in relief in circular panel.

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Plaster cast of Charioteer of Delphi

PC/008
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.

Original: The life-size bronze statue of a chariot driver was found in 1896 at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi and is also known as Heniokhos, the rein-holder. The statue was erected at Delphi in 474BC, to commemorate the victory of a chariot team in the Pythean Games, which were held at Delphi every four years in honor of Pythean Apollo. Original currently in the collection of the Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece.

Plaster cast of case of column cluster with human mask

PC/093
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Base of columns with human mask. Of French Gothic style. Bears illegible maker's stamp (possibly that of "Commission Royale Belge Atelier du Moulage, Bruxelles").

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Plaster cast of capital with scroll ornament

PC/113
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Bears illegible maker's stamp.

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of capital with monk

PC/199
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of capital with masks and foliage

PC/163
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of capital with foliage ornament

PC/114
Item
Mid 19th century to 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Annotated "13E".

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Plaster cast of capital with double columns

PC/207
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Capital with conjoined double doric style columns.

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Plaster cast of capital from the Temple of Vesta

PC/097B
Item
19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Composite capital form the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, of the Greco Romano style. Temple of Vesta is a ruined temple in Tivoli, Italy from the 1st century BC.

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of capital decorated with acanthus leaves

PC/205
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Capital in with three sides of curling leaves ornamentation.

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Plaster cast of Cantorie Panels

PC/050D
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Lucca della Robbia (1400-1482). Part of the two 'Cantorie' made for Florence Cathedral. Original currently in the collection of the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence, Italy.