Lot Essay
Cf. Richard Dennis The Parian Phenomenon, A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statutary & Busts (Somerset, 1989), p. 182, fig. 597 for a similar bust
CIRCA 1863, IMPRESSED COPELAND, PUBD FEBY 1 1863/CRYSTAL PALACE ART UNION/F.M. MILLER. SCULP.
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A Copeland Parian bust of Princess Alexandra
CIRCA 1863, IMPRESSED COPELAND, PUBd FEBY 1 1863/CRYSTAL PALACE ART UNION/F.M. MILLER. SCULP.
Modelled quarter-length looking to the left, wearing her curled hair in a chignon, earings, a dress with a rose-moulded neckline and a robe moulded with a crest of three lions surmounted by a crown, on a socle base (chipping to base, faint hairline crack to neck)
11¾ in. (29.7 cm.) high
CIRCA 1863, IMPRESSED COPELAND, PUBd FEBY 1 1863/CRYSTAL PALACE ART UNION/F.M. MILLER. SCULP.
Modelled quarter-length looking to the left, wearing her curled hair in a chignon, earings, a dress with a rose-moulded neckline and a robe moulded with a crest of three lions surmounted by a crown, on a socle base (chipping to base, faint hairline crack to neck)
11¾ in. (29.7 cm.) high
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