| Description | Replica plaster wall panel depicting a draped figure sitting on a globe, divided into four quadrants and decorated with stars. She holds a sheaf of wheat and a cornucopia filled with corn and fruit. Constantine P. Curran identified the panel as showing either 'Ceres' (Roman goddess of agriculture) or 'Pax' (Roman goddess of peace). The panel is a copy based on the original found in Riverstown House, Cork by the noted Swiss-Italian stuccoists, Paolo Lafranchini (1695-1776) and his brother Filipo (1702-c.1779). In the 1960s, the Irish Georgian Society campaigned for the restoration of Riverstown, concerned for the fate of this important example of the Lafranchini’s work in Ireland. Raymond McGrath oversaw the taking of moulds from the originals and a suite of facsimiles were made for Áras an Uachtaráin. Although speculative, it seems likely that the College’s panels were made from the same moulds. |
| Custodial History | Presented by The Faculty of Occupational Medicine |