拍品 316
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A Buen Retiro white biscuit porcelain figure of Euterpe
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A Buen Retiro white biscuit porcelain figure of Euterpe

CIRCA 1805

細節
A Buen Retiro white biscuit porcelain figure of Euterpe
Circa 1805
Her hair garlanded with flowers and wearing a long flowing robe, her head turned slightly to the right, holding a manuscript inscribed Musica, Pastorit in her right hand, a horn and a flute at her feet, standing on a mound on a circular plinth base moulded at the front with EUTERPE. (her head and right forearm broken off and restored, part of manuscript restored, very minor chipping to edge of base)
12½ in. (31.6 cm.) high
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拍品專文

Euterpe was the muse of music and lyrical poetry and this figure, together with lot 318, is from a series of Apollo and the nine muses derived from the paintings by Luis Paret. For the series in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid, see Carmen Manueco Santurtún et. al., 'Manufactura del Buen Retiro 1760-1808' Exhibition Catalogue (Madrid, 1999), pp. 416-425, and p. 422, no. 194 for a figure similar to the present lot. It is interesting to note that the circular plinth bases of this series are sometimes moulded with the name of the muse represented, as with the present lot. The plinth bases without names are slightly more shallow in depth, as with lot 318. For other named figures in the same series, see the figures of Erato and Thalia on p. 423 and p. 425.