A Late Baroque Master’s Lost Marble Turns Up in a U.K. Salvage Yard

Spotted at a Wiltshire reclamation yard and purchased for £300 ($395), a marble sculpture by Late Baroque master Pietro Bracci (1700–1773) is expected to bring between £ 5,000 and £10,000 ($6,600–$13,200) at auction. Research undertaken by a specialist at U.K. auction house Woolley & Wallis has identified the roughly two-foot-tall marble as the only surviving maquette for Bracci’s 1736 bronze statue of Pope Clement XII.The life-sized bronze once stood in t