BACCHUS reclining to the right in ivory porcelain painted in Raphaelesque colours, his head wreathed with vine tied with pink ribbon, wearing a loose pale-blue robe shaded in cream, with a cream and white fluted urn at his side, on a rocky rectangular plinth (restoration to neck and shoulders, left leg and foot and to urn), puce printed mark, impressed R, model number 2/73, circa 1875

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BACCHUS reclining to the right in ivory porcelain painted in Raphaelesque colours, his head wreathed with vine tied with pink ribbon, wearing a loose pale-blue robe shaded in cream, with a cream and white fluted urn at his side, on a rocky rectangular plinth (restoration to neck and shoulders, left leg and foot and to urn), puce printed mark, impressed R, model number 2/73, circa 1875
9½in. (24cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Paul Atterbury (ed.), The Parian Phenomenon, p. 221 for a page from the shape book, showing this figure

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