A ROYAL WORCESTER PARIAN FIGURE OF VENUS after Canova, the young woman wearing a loose drape edged in pink and gilding and falling in folds around her thighs and legs, her hair curled and piled on her head, reclining on cushions on a couch moulded with formal scrolls, flowerheads and anthemion enriched in gilding (restoration to hands and right foot, cracks to couch, chip to base, slight wear to gilding), green printed marks and dated 1866

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A ROYAL WORCESTER PARIAN FIGURE OF VENUS after Canova, the young woman wearing a loose drape edged in pink and gilding and falling in folds around her thighs and legs, her hair curled and piled on her head, reclining on cushions on a couch moulded with formal scrolls, flowerheads and anthemion enriched in gilding (restoration to hands and right foot, cracks to couch, chip to base, slight wear to gilding), green printed marks and dated 1866
22½in. (57cm.) wide

Lot Essay

The original marble sculpture modelled by Canova, thought to be of Pauline Bonaparte, is in the Villa Borghese in Rome. Cf. Henry Sandon, Royal Worcester Porcelain, pl. 13

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