A BOW FIGURE OF EUTERPE by the Muses Modeller, her pink-lined dress painted with flowers and with pale-yellow drapery, holding a trumpet in her left hand and with a lute at her feet, seated on rockwork with her right arm resting on a ledge with fluted drapery (minute chip to headdress, neck of lute restored), 1750-52

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A BOW FIGURE OF EUTERPE by the Muses Modeller, her pink-lined dress painted with flowers and with pale-yellow drapery, holding a trumpet in her left hand and with a lute at her feet, seated on rockwork with her right arm resting on a ledge with fluted drapery (minute chip to headdress, neck of lute restored), 1750-52
16cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, op. cit., p. 128, no. 198 and E.C.C. Exhibition Catalogue, 1948, pl. 36, no. 161. For white examples see Arthur Lane, English Porcelain Figures of the 18th Century, pl. 39 and Elizabeth Adams & David Redstone, Bow Porcelain, p. 136, pl. 66

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