Lot 2
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A BOW WHITE FIGURE EMBLEMATIC OF 'FEELING'
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A BOW WHITE FIGURE EMBLEMATIC OF 'FEELING'

CIRCA 1754-64

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A BOW WHITE FIGURE EMBLEMATIC OF 'FEELING'
CIRCA 1754-64
From a series of The Senses, modelled as a lady, seated by a tree-stump, wearing a high-waisted low-cut gown with a mob cap and short cloak, a hound leaping up at her knee, on a shaped base (her right foot a restored replacement, minor chipping to foliage and extremities)
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Cf. Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures (London, 1992), p.127, figure 102; and on p. 105, Bradshaw postulates that this series of The Senses, with their distinctive postures, small heads and draperies, may have been based on a set of French 17th century engravings, as yet untraced.

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