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TWO BOW WHITE FIGURES OF SPHINXES
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TWO BOW WHITE FIGURES OF SPHINXES

CIRCA 1750

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TWO BOW WHITE FIGURES OF SPHINXES
CIRCA 1750
Each with a lady's head and lion's paws, wearing lace cap, drop ear rings and beaded necklace, an elaborate saddle on her back, recumbent on a rococo scroll-work base (one cap chipped, slight chipping to extremeties)
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) wide (2)
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Lot Essay

Cf., Anton Gabszewicz, Bow Porcelain, The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman (London, 1982), p. 124, no. 189. See also H. Tait, Apollo, June 1960, for a discussion of the derivation of this model from an original French print source.

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