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The group was modelled after a marble original shown at the 1862 London International Exhibtion. Cf. Paul Atterbury (Ed.), op. cit., p. 91, Fig. 148
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A MINTON PARIAN GROUP OF RHODOPE after the original model by C. F. Fuller, the young Greek courtesan naked and sleeping on a bed of drapery and grass as an eagle removes her sandals, on an oval base (one sandal damaged), incised C.F.F., impressed marks and model number 436, date code for 1868 17¼in. (44cm.) long
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A MINTON PARIAN GROUP OF RHODOPE after the original model by C. F. Fuller, the young Greek courtesan naked and sleeping on a bed of drapery and grass as an eagle removes her sandals, on an oval base (one sandal damaged), incised C.F.F., impressed marks and model number 436, date code for 1868 17¼in. (44cm.) long