拍品 20
20
Property from the Estate of RICHARD J. ROBERTSON
A DERBY FIGURE GROUP OF NEPTUNE

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A DERBY FIGURE GROUP OF NEPTUNE
CIRCA 1760, PATCH MARKS

Modelled standing in a flowered robe holding a trident above a scally dolphin with water issuing from its mouth onto an elaborate shell-work pierced base, the whole picked out in magenta, coral, red and green, dolphin's tail, trident, front drape and left arm restored
9in. (22.9cm.) high

拍品專文

Cf. Donald Peirce, English Ceramics: The Frances and Emory Cocke Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA., 1988, fig. 121 for another example of the present model used as the finial to a tiered shell-encrusted sweetmeat stand; also fig. 87 for the Chelsea version of the model and fig. 61 for a Staffordshire pottery example circa 1825-1830 based on these earlier porcelain prototypes