polychrome

Baghramian, who was born in Iran, will present abstract, polychrome sculptures, in the niches, that “seem to have washed up like flotsam and jetsam,” the museum said.

The mug was described in the auction catalogue as "a tin glazed commemorative mug with polychrome decoration depicting a bust length portrait of King Charles II, crowned and wearing armour and titled 'CD2 and 1660'".

“All reconstructions engage in uncertainty,” said Sarah E. Bond, a historian at the University of Iowa who has written extensively on the polychrome debate.

All the colorized statues are interpretations of what the polychrome scholars believe they may have looked like.

It retains the full respiratory grandeur of his large seascapes, the nearly abstract polychromes of his late whaling pictures.