Stone model of a recumbent cow

UK: THE Thames-side meadows at Christopher Gibbs’ Manor House in Oxfordshire contained a number of pieces of classical statuary with important provenances, but none proved so valuable as this unheralded stone model of a recumbent cow.

Measuring 5ft 4in (1.62m) long, the cow’s 18th century Irish origins may have accounted for some of …

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