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Lot 161

A Plymouth figure emblematic of Europe, circa 1768-70

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £956.25 inc. premium

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A Plymouth figure emblematic of Europe, circa 1768-70

From a set of the Four Continents, modelled as a classical lady standing wearing a floral robe and green sash, a laurel chaplet and coronet in her hair, holding a painter's palette in her left hand and a book in her right, armour, a cannon and a horse at her feet, raised on an irregular scrolled base, 32.4cm high

Footnotes

Four varying examples of this model from the Stephen Simpson Collection are illustrated together by F Severne Mackenna, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain (1946), pl.52, fig.91. A Bristol version of this figure was sold by Phillips on 12 September 2001, lot 190. See the footnote to lot 160 in this sale.

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