CIRCA 1805

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A Buen Retiro white biscuit group emblematic of the Triumph of Peace
Circa 1805
Peace crowned with laurels and dressed in long classical robes, standing in a languid pose, with grapes, flowers and coins spilling out from the large cornucopia in her left hand, extinguishing a long torch held in her right hand, a naked prisoner kneeling beside her, his hands chained behind his back to a tree-stump, another flaming torch on the ground and the implements of War including a helmet, shield, swords, arrows, a bow and quiver nearby, on a circular mound base (large firing crack to base and Peace's feet, minute chipping to coins and grapes, small chipping to edge of base)
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a similar example (without the torch) in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid, see Carmen Manueco Santurtún et. al., 'Manufactura del Buen Retiro 1760-1808' Exhibition Catalogue (Madrid, 1999), pp. 426-7, no. 199.

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