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Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. E415, fig. 170.
Details
A figure of Jenny Lind as 'Alice'
wearing a cobalt-blue bodice and plaid skirt, modelled standing beside a Celtic cross upon a pedestal, on oval base, titled in gilt script, circa 1847 (her neck restored, the glaze lightly crazed) -- 26cm. high
See illustration
wearing a cobalt-blue bodice and plaid skirt, modelled standing beside a Celtic cross upon a pedestal, on oval base, titled in gilt script, circa 1847 (her neck restored, the glaze lightly crazed) -- 26cm. high
See illustration
Special notice
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