An 'Egyptian slave girl' garden seat

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An 'Egyptian slave girl' garden seat
probably Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co., modelled as a young woman wearing a yellow striped robe and blue sash, seated with her knees tucked up supporting her elbows, the quatrefoil seat pierced with a handle and moulded with fans of leaves above an owl, its wings spread between palm leaves, perched in stylised flowers on a ground simiulating snake's skin above two cobra, on a stepped lobed base, painted number 1153, circa 1875 (chip to the step of the base on the left hand side) -- 54cm. high
See colour plate 11

Lot Essay

Cf. Marylin G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, Majolica A Complete History and Illustrated Survey (1989), p.123.
The same seated is also illustrated by Victoria Bergesen, Majolica (1989), col.pl. XIII and the front cover.

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