Fragment of a Half-Column
Unknown Sculptor, Zsolnay Porcelain Manufactory (cast maker)No image available
- Artist
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Unknown Sculptor
Zsolnay Porcelain Manufactory
(cast maker)
Pécs, 20. század eleje
- Dated
- 12th century (original), 1902 (cast)
- Classification
- sculpture, plaster cast
- Medium
- plaster cast
- Dimensions
- 56 × 32.5 cm
- Inv.no.
- Rg.70
- Department
- Sculptures - Plaster casts
- Current Location of the Original Artwork
- Hungary, Pécs, The Lapidarium, Cathedral of Pécs
Fragment of a semi-column – decorated with interweaving banderole, leaves and clusters – with a calycular capital decorated with leaves from the Romanesque cathedral of Pécs. The cast was made in the plaster castimg workshop of the Zsolnay Factory in Pécs in 1902, and it was exhibited in the Romanesque Hall of the newly opened museum in 1906. Probably lost during World War II, the current whereabouts of the artwork are unknown.