BRITISH CERAMICS

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A Parian Porcelain Figure of Musidora, after William Theed,

Copeland 1867, for the Ceramic and Crystal Palace Art Union 1866, impressed marks and title, 44cm high

This is the companion figure to Malempré’s shepherd boy, and is based on the marble statue executed in 1866 for the Prince of Wales, exhibited at the 1866 RA, and placed in Marlborough House, London. Musidora is a water nymph featured in James Thompson’s The Seasons (1730) who was loved by Damon, a young swane. From a copse he sees her bathing and writes the following lines in sand on the river bank: Bathe on,

my fair, - yet unbeheld save by the second I, of a fateful love; I go to guard thy haunt, to keep from thy recess each vagrant foot and each licentious eye

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An English Pottery Slip Decorated Baking Dish, 19th

century, with a combed cream blue and black allover design, indistinct

impressed mark Harwood, Old Clarence Pottery, Stockton, 40cm

wide; and Another Very Similar,

unmarked, incised 16, 42cm wide (2)

This Stockton pottery was founded by Thomas Harwood.

£80 - 120

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A Parian Figure of a Water Nymph, after John Thomas, Minton 1861, impressed MINTON,

year cypher and T, 79cm high

A similar figure is illustrated in The Parian

Phenomenon, A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary and Busts,

edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, fig.125, page 82. The original stone statue was exhibited at the

1861 RA as Nymph: Property of HM The

Queen, is now in the Royal Dairy at Frogmore, shown at the International Exhibition 1862.

£500 - 800

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A Parian Classical Group, J&T Bevington, Hanley, circa 1865-

77, as a young mother wearing diaphanous toga and hair net, playing with a child at her feet flanked by a table with a jewellery box, on a concave sided oval plinth stamped

J&TBand 404, 39cm high

£120 - 180

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A Pair of Enamelled and Gilded Parian Porcelain Figures of Classical Maidens, circa 1860,

one standing holding a vase, the other draping a robe behind her back, with turquoise enamel details heightened in gilt, on concave sided circular integral plinths, 36cm and 37cm high respectively

£180 - 250

For a similar figure see The Parian Phenomenon, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, page 153, illus 518

£200 - 300

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A Parian Porcelain Mythological

Group, circa 1860, as a semi-nude classical maiden seated on the back of a male lion, a Bacchic infant at her feet playing with a serpent, a fox and lamb close by, on an oval base, apparently unmarked, 36cm high, beneath a glass dome on an ebonised plinth, 46cm high overall

£120 - 180

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A Minton Parian Figure of Sir Robert Peel, 1858, standing beside

a cloth draped pillar on which is placed books and scrolls, holding his coat lapel with his left hand and gazing slightly to sinister, incised ermine mark and year cypher for 1858, 47.5cm high

£1000 - 1500

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A Copeland Parian Bust of Clytie, after the Antique, 1855, the

beautiful maiden depicted bust length issuing from foliage, on a concave sided circular base with brown transfer printed mark O Delpech

(Redt) Art Union of London 1855,

35cm high

The original Greco-Roman marble is in the Townley Collection at the British Museum. This was executed as prizes for the Art Union of London from 1855 onwards.

£250 - 350

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