An Early 20thC Scottish Plaster Portrait Bust of George Hope Tait by Thomas J. Clapperton 1929 sub-Macabre- Medicine where they were used for

where they were used for water

Perhaps because of his apparent unwillingness to be seriously monumental

surviving from the far east at the beginning of the twentieth century

A decorative and useful barn find with a host of character

An Early 20thC Scottish Plaster Portrait Bust of George Hope Tait by Thomas J. Clapperton 1929 sub-Macabre- Medicine where they were used forOrigin: Scottish Period: Early 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1929 Width: 14 Depth: 8 Height: 17 Base: 6 x 5 (all at extremities) The finely modelled early 20th century Scottish plaster portrait bust of the artist, designer and civic figure George Hope Tait (18651950), executed in 1929 by the noted Borders sculptor Thomas J. Clapperton (18791962) and cast with a quiet naturalism typical of Clappertons portrait work, the sitter shown turned