Zinc Statue of the Praying Boy of Rhodes c.1860A charming rendition of the Greek Hellenistic Praying Boy of Rhodes 300 BC. The original of which is now housed in the Altes Museum, Berlin. Created in zinc. The statue was possibly cast by the Berlin founders M. Geiss, who exhibited a bronzed zinc cast of stags in the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. The sculpture has a number of historical repairs and is mounted on a painted wooden plinth. Its zinc surface is clearly visible after probably being