The Foot of Laocoon Works of Art who was the inventor of

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A diminutive Jefferson moonstone opaline glass pendant with a vented copper gallery

Three way adjustable nickel plated uprights supported on a painted cast iron bases with makers mark to the underside

The Foot of Laocoon Works of Art who was the inventor ofA 19th museum plaster taken from "Laocoon and his sons". Numbered "2487" with wall hanger, probably the work of D. Bruccianni & Co but unsigned. Late 19th century. The statue of Laocon and his sons, also called the Laocon Group, was excavated in Rome in 1506 and put on public display at the Vatican Museum, where it remains today. The statue is very likely the same one that was praised in the highest terms by Pliny the Elder, the main Roman writer on