A Copeland parian bust of the May Queen
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A Copeland parian bust of the May Queen

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A Copeland parian bust of the May Queen
quarter-length, wearing a garland of leaves in her hair, titled to the reverse and impressed CERAMIC/AND CRYSTAL PALACE ART UNION./PUB APRIL 1 1868. J DURHAM SC, the underside inscribed No 10 16/4/75, impressed mark (minute chips) -- 29cm. high
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Lot Essay

Cf. Paul Atterbury (ed.) The Parian Phenomenon (1989), p. 180, fig. 588.

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