from a tenement in
New York City,
~ I present ~
Queen Frieze Fragment Nr A3
Cast by Randall
The beautiful original sculpture used for the mold was a one of two hand made buff yellow terracotta sculptures I salvaged from a circa 1900 building around 1977 The two identical co-joined buildings were located at #5 and #7 Avenue D in Manhattan's Lower East Side
How was a piece like this used on a building?
Below is photo of the two buildings the sculptures came from, albeit a poor polaroid instamatic, as should be obvious the one on the left (nr.5) was a burned out hulk, the sky can be seen through the top floor window through the burned out roof.
The two frieze panels were located on the ground floor at sidewalk level beneath the windows on either side of the entrance (not shown in the photo) they had been covered over by some kind of box sign- the installation of which caused the projecting tip of the queen's crown to be broken off.
In this circa 1939 view, which I can't enlarge without major quality degregation- one of the panels can just about be seen in the middle of the photo directly above the head of the lady in the light colored coat walking on the sidewalk. There is a square white sign perpendicular to the panel as well, and the queen's distinctive head can be seen if one looks closely, and two other queen heads can also be seen further to the right as there were four total:
Note that the terracotta is ONLY available in brick red and ONLY on a limited selection- the designs in the TERRACOTTA category, not to be confused with the red terracotta FINISH! which is on cast-stone only.
Prices include shipping and are shown on each sculpture on the CART PAGES.
I use FEDEX ground service for all shipments in the lower 48 states. I do not ship outside the USA.
If you are looking for something for the garden or to build into a wall, I offer a growing number of hand-pressed, kiln fired red terracotta works. for many reasons, concrete is no longer available.
All of my interior sculptures have a heavy wire embedded on the back to hang them on the wall.
These hand sculpted models are created from scratch by Randall in water based clay, and typically take an average of 20-30 hours to set up, layout and sculpt each master model.
When the clay master models are finished, they are permanently captured with silicone mold compounds which can pick up even a fingerprint and faithfully transfer it to a cast made in it. From the molds, interior cast-stone as well as a growing number of kiln fired terracotta sculptures are made available for clients to purchase.
Existing savaged pieces are limited to what happens to be for sale at high prices, often damaged, rarely found in pairs and being typically large in scale (meant to be seen from the street from 5 floors below) they are difficult to display in today's smaller homes and apartments. Instead of making molds of these pieces, Randall creates new original models based on authentic 19th century and early 20th century Victorian, Art Deco and Louis Sullivan style architectural sculptures. While I do have a small number of older designs directly molded from antique pieces, these are being phased out over time as I create my own original models.
By no means! keep in mind- your walls weigh thousands of pounds and support the roof. HOWEVER- do not use plastic or self adhesive picture hangars of any kind, or try to simply put a screw into the thin sheetrock-these will not hold, and are not designed to.
Install your mounting hooks or other hangars into the solid wood STUD inside the wall, these are spaced 16" apart. You should use an anchor rated to hold at least twice the shipping weight of the sculpture.
To show what a sheetrock wall can hold, here is a photo of two shelves I installed on my bedroom wall for original sculptures that I couldn't mount any other way, the brackets are screwed into the wall studs with 3" screws. The weight for the stone and terra-cotta shown-the top shelf; 175# and 125# for the lower shelf- 300# total.
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