AN ENGLISH PARIAN FIGURE OF JAMES WATT, the young inventor seated warming a spoon from the steam issuing from a kettle on an oven, on a waisted tapering oval base (restoration to kettle, spoon and fingers, chip to his coat on reverse), impressed mark and number 330, circa 1860, 11½in. (29.5cm.) high; and a Robinson & Leadbeater parian portrait bust of Shakespeare, impressed title and monogram, circa 1890, 8in. (20cm.) high (2)
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AN ENGLISH PARIAN FIGURE OF JAMES WATT, the young inventor seated warming a spoon from the steam issuing from a kettle on an oven, on a waisted tapering oval base (restoration to kettle, spoon and fingers, chip to his coat on reverse), impressed mark and number 330, circa 1860, 11½in. (29.5cm.) high; and a Robinson & Leadbeater parian portrait bust of Shakespeare, impressed title and monogram, circa 1890, 8in. (20cm.) high (2)
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James Watt (1736-1819) was the inventor of the modern condensing steam engine