A beautiful in shades of bronze patinated bust of a woman with laurel wreath. Material: solid plaster Good busts of this quality are hard to find. Colour patina is in bronze/brown tones with gold accents. Marked on the back: H.L. Blasche, and Sappho on the front. Size: 64 cm high x 42 cm wide x 20 cm deep weight approx. 11 kg. Goods will be shipped by registered mail, but preferably pickup (due to vulnerability and weight) ------------------- Sappho was a lyric poet from ancient Greece. She was a native of Mytilene, the capital city of the island of Lesbos. In the nineteenth century, according to the feminist classicist Page DuBois the myth became fashionable that she on her return founded a kind of aristocratic boarding school for girls. The atmosphere of intimacy between Sappho and girls in her poems gave her the reputation to prefer women love, hence the word lesbian literally "from the island of Lesbos".