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DISPLAY OF THE 'ANTIQUE'
The publication in 1709 of illustrations of the French court sculptor Francois Girardon's own collection of reductions of Antique statues served to inspire a generation of collectors and create a more accessible alternative to the grandiose large scale sculpture galleries and cast courts of the European nobility. Girardon's gallery showed his mastery at display of the most famous works, pairing groups in order of size, even displaying two models of the same group in order to show the reverse.
THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
A LARGE CONTINENTAL WHITE PORCELAIN BUST OF ATHENA
CIRCA 1870, BLUE IMITATION NAPLES MARK
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A LARGE CONTINENTAL WHITE PORCELAIN BUST OF ATHENA
CIRCA 1870, BLUE IMITATION NAPLES MARK
The Goddess modelled quarter-length, her head slightly turned, wearing a helmet surmounted by a winged sphinx, a shield flanked by two hippocampi to the front, with elaborate breast plate and drape over her shoulders, on waisted rectangular section socle, mounted on a later gilt-metal-edged rectangular base
Approx. 35 in. (89 cm.) high overall
CIRCA 1870, BLUE IMITATION NAPLES MARK
The Goddess modelled quarter-length, her head slightly turned, wearing a helmet surmounted by a winged sphinx, a shield flanked by two hippocampi to the front, with elaborate breast plate and drape over her shoulders, on waisted rectangular section socle, mounted on a later gilt-metal-edged rectangular base
Approx. 35 in. (89 cm.) high overall