A LENOX ART POTTERY BUST OF CLEOPATRA

TWICE DATED 1914 AND SIGNED BROOME.SCULPTOR 1875-1914, THE UNDERSIDE WITH AN OB MONOGRAM

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A LENOX ART POTTERY BUST OF CLEOPATRA
Twice Dated 1914 and signed BROOME.SCULPTOR 1875-1914, the underside with an OB monogram
Of 'heroic' size, in the likeness of the Egyptian Queen as depicted at the Temple of Philo, in exotically patterned headdress surmounted by a cobra and suspending serpent loop rings, her beaded lotus necklace suspending a vulture and an ankh above a low cut bodice and feather cinch, on a circular socle
25½ in. (64.7 cm.) high

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See Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, American Porcelain, 1770-1929, New York, 1989, p. 170-171. This model was originally produced in 1876 by Ott & Brewer Eturia Pottery, Trenton. Winning a gold medal at its international debut, The Paris Universelle Exposition of 1878, the work gained great exclaim for its strikingly 'haughty beauty'. The following year a parian example was the focus of the Ott & Brewer Exhibit at The American Institute Fair in New York City (see illustration above). The present bust is one of three recasts made by Issac Broome in 1914 expressly for either Scott Lenox, Charles E. Cook (owner of Ott & Brewer) or William S. Hancock, after which the mould was to be destroyed.

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