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Lot 153

A large Bow figure of Flora, circa 1760

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,083.75 inc. premium

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A large Bow figure of Flora, circa 1760

The goddess standing beside a flowering stump, wearing a floral robe held up with her right hand to reveal her bare feet, a pink and yellow cloak hanging from her left shoulder, holding a wreath of flowers in her left hand, raised on a square base painted to simulate marble, 44cm high

Footnotes

This figure is based on the Roman marble original in the Farnese Palace. A similar figure is illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain (1982), p.138, no.226. A version left in the white is in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection (accession no. 1960-348).

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