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A PAIR OF SAMSON FAIENCE BUSTS AND BRACKETS
Allegorical of Summer and Autumn, Summer modelled as Ceres with wheat and flowers in her hair, a braid trailing over her shoulder in flowered green drapery on a square shelf socle; Autumn as Bacchus, his blue hair and bare chest entwined with fruit laden vines and with ochre and puce drapery; the brackets moulded with grimacing satyr masks and shells--33½in. (85cm.) high (2)
Allegorical of Summer and Autumn, Summer modelled as Ceres with wheat and flowers in her hair, a braid trailing over her shoulder in flowered green drapery on a square shelf socle; Autumn as Bacchus, his blue hair and bare chest entwined with fruit laden vines and with ochre and puce drapery; the brackets moulded with grimacing satyr masks and shells--33½in. (85cm.) high (2)