A Plaster Portrait Bust of a Maiden in the Style of Clytie c.1870-1900 poa-item and the whole surviving from

and the whole surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century

The seat cushion has been later re-upholstered in a lovely red velvet

Many decks such as this one were published in Paris though the game of tarot was not widely accepted in England until the 1870s when a number of English occultists had begun taking an interest in the tarot

Regarded as the distant ancestor to the modern sofa

A Plaster Portrait Bust of a Maiden in the Style of Clytie c.1870-1900 poa-item and the whole surviving fromOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 1900 Width: 20 Depth: 10 Height: 25 The Base: 9. 5 x 5. 5 (all at extremities) The well sized three quarter plaster bust of a lady or maiden, her hair in plats, modelled in the style of Clytie after the original Greco Roman marble in the Townley collection in the British Museum, with wear and weathering commensurate with age, scantily draped and cupped in ruffled leaves on an