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Cf. Paul Atterbury (ed.), op. cit., p. 211, Fig. 692 and ibid., p. 219, which shows a page from the pattern book where is noted that the moulds for these figures had been destroyed
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BEFORE THE WIND AND AGAINST THE WIND, a pair of green-tinted and glazed parian figures of a girl with long hair, the former with her robe fluttering around her legs, the latter bending forward drawing her scanty green robe about her, on tree-stump and rock circular bases, impressed marks, model numbers 2/54 and 2/55, circa 1862
10½in. (27cm.) and 11½in. (29.5cm.) high (2)
10½in. (27cm.) and 11½in. (29.5cm.) high (2)