A PAIR OF MINTON TINTED PARIAN FIGURES OF MAIDENS EMBLEMATIC OF SCIENCE AND FINE ART modelled by Thomas Nelson MacLean, each wearing apricot classical robes falling in loose folds, their coiled hair secured by apricot bands, Art holding a dark-brown slender urn incised with a dancing faun, key-pattern and leaves, Science holding a pale-blue globe and instrument, on dark-brown waisted circular bases (Science with small chips to base and restored left arm, Fine Art with restored left arm and hand, neck and right thumb), impressed marks, title and facsimile signature, dated 1873

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A PAIR OF MINTON TINTED PARIAN FIGURES OF MAIDENS EMBLEMATIC OF SCIENCE AND FINE ART modelled by Thomas Nelson MacLean, each wearing apricot classical robes falling in loose folds, their coiled hair secured by apricot bands, Art holding a dark-brown slender urn incised with a dancing faun, key-pattern and leaves, Science holding a pale-blue globe and instrument, on dark-brown waisted circular bases (Science with small chips to base and restored left arm, Fine Art with restored left arm and hand, neck and right thumb), impressed marks, title and facsimile signature, dated 1873
14¼in. (36cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The original terracotta models were shown at the Royal Academy in 1873 and examples in coloured parian were exhibited by Minton at the Vienna Exhibition of that year. Cf. Paul Atterbury, (ed.), op. cit., p. 120, Fig. 421 for the drawing of Fine Art. See also Joan Jones, op. cit., p. 127 for a similar pair

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