POSSIBLY BY JAMES TASSIE, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A WHITE WAX PORTRAIT RELIEF OF BISHOP PERCY
POSSIBLY BY JAMES TASSIE, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Modelled in three-quater pose to the right, on a glass ground
The wax - 3¼in. (8.2cm.) high
And a white wax portrait relief of a gentleman, first half 19th century, modelled in profile to the right, the shoulders with heavy drapery, signed to the truncation Laws, on a glass ground -- the wax - 3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Thomas Percy (1729-1811), English antiquarian, poet and churchman became Protestant bishop of Dromore (Ireland) in 1782. He achieved literary fame as the editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (3 vol., 1765), a collection of 176 English and Scottish ballads, which sparked a rediscovery of medieval English poetry and inspired romantic poets in Germany as well as England. He died at his home in Dromore, Co. Down in 1811.

Edward Law (or Laws) was born in Sheffield in 1798. He is known to be active in the production of wax reliefs around 1826/7 including examples of Sir Isaac Newton and Shakespeare. He died in 1838.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
E. J. Pyke, A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers, Oxford U.P., 1973, p.76-77.

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