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A Ralph Wood figure of Sir Isaac Newton

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A Ralph Wood figure of Sir Isaac Newton
modelled standing in contraposto, a telescope in one hand, his other hand drawing back a drape which partly covers a celestial globe atop a stack of books from which protrudes a manuscript moulded with a comet and inscribed 1680, set on a rectangular-section marbleised base, enriched in colours and gilt, impressed 137 to one side of the base -- 12in. (30.3cm.) high, circa 1785-1800

拍品专文

C.f. English Earthenware Figures by Pat Halfpenny, p.140, where a similar figure in the collection of the Royal Pavilion Art Gallery & Museum is illustrated and discussed. It is noted that that figure is impressed Ra. Wood Burslem and in common with this figure it also carries the impressed number 137