Lot 146
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A French faience bust representing 'Ceres' or 'Autumn'
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A French faience bust representing 'Ceres' or 'Autumn'

19TH CENTURY

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A French faience bust representing 'Ceres' or 'Autumn'
19th Century
Modelled half-turned to the right, her manganese-brown hair dressed with fruit and trailing vine, a garland of fruit over her right shoulder, a blue flowered robe draped about her, on a rectangular spreading socle painted in blue with bulidings among trees and edged in green ( some very minor chipping to foliage and fruit in hair)
29 in. (74 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

This bust is strongly reminiscent of the bust of Autumn from the original and reknowned series of The Four Seasons, made in Rouen in about 1740 by the potter Nicolas Fouquay. For some time in the possession of the Dukes of Hamilton, the busts, their pedestals and an associated bust of Apollo were sold in 1883 at the famous Hamilton Palace sale, and are now in the Louvre. See Faïences Françaises XVIe-XVIIIe Siècles, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Exposition 6 juin - 25 août 1980, catalogue, no. 328.

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