Antique Cast Bronze Busts of Plato & Epicurus for Display or Bookends

Price: $1,980

Antique Cast Bronze Busts of Plato & Epicurus for Display or Bookends are just the right size and weight to perform yeoman's duty on your bookcase or desk top.  Both figures feature serene, downward glances in the classical form.  Detail is astounding, rendered with a patinaed finish that enhances every nuance.  To the best of our knowledge, they represent Plato who is considered one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers.  He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle.  The taller bust appears to be Epicurus, who was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy; it asserted that philosophy's purpose is to attain as well as to help others attain tranquil lives, characterized by freedom from fear and the absence of pain.
Circa early 1900s
Epicurus measures 10H x 5.5W x 4.5D;
Plato measures 8H x 5W x 4D