White vitreous / glass paste profile head-and-shoulders right-facing profile portrait bust of Adam Smith by James Tassie; incised inscription and signature in the truncation: "ADAM SMITH | IN HIS 64TH

£25,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd · No longer available

A fine example of the only certain lifetime portrait of Adam Smith, a profile portrait bust by the Scottish modeller and portrait medallionist James Tassie (1735-99). “In 1793 Dugald Stewart, who had known Smith, stated that ‘the medallion of Tassie conveys an exact idea of his profile, and of the general expression of

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