A MINTON PARIAN FIGURE OF LADY CONSTANCE GROSVENOR after the model by Albert Carrier-Belleuse, her hair coiled and braided, wearing a buttoned jacket over a lace tunic and skirts trimmed with a trellis-pattern, holding a spray of morning glory, on a circular base (crack through base and extending along folds of skirt), impressed facsimilae signature, dated 1854

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A MINTON PARIAN FIGURE OF LADY CONSTANCE GROSVENOR after the model by Albert Carrier-Belleuse, her hair coiled and braided, wearing a buttoned jacket over a lace tunic and skirts trimmed with a trellis-pattern, holding a spray of morning glory, on a circular base (crack through base and extending along folds of skirt), impressed facsimilae signature, dated 1854
20½in. (52cm.) high

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Cf. Paul Atterbury, (ed.), op. cit., p. 75 for a similar example. The figure was shown at the International Exhibition of 1862 and is copied from a painting on ivory by R. Thorburn

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