A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE FIGURE GROUP OF ROMULUS AND REMUS
CIRCA 1828
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A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE FIGURE GROUP OF ROMULUS AND REMUS
Circa 1828
Of Sherratt-type modelled with twin boys nursing from a she-wolf recumbent before a flowering bocage on a grassy mound applied with flowers, raised on a rectangular table base moulded with a wolf and floral garlands, above beaded bracket feet
8 1/8in. (20.6cm.) high
Provenance
With Boswell & Ward, London
Literature
Manheim, pl. no. 58
Lot Essay
See Halfpenny, p. 232 for a variant group of the same subject, titled on the base and date circa 1815-1825.
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