Live Auction 2010Christie's Interiors
THREE ENGLISH PEARLWARE FIGURES,
Lot 408

THREE ENGLISH PEARLWARE FIGURES,

CIRCA 1780-1810,

Closed11 June 2008

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USD 687

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THREE ENGLISH PEARLWARE FIGURES,
CIRCA 1780-1810,
the first after the Medici Venus; the second of Ceres and emblematic of Summer; the third with arms raised and standing beside a shield
The Venus 9in. (23cm.) high (3)

Specialist note

See Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840, Suffolk, 1991, p. 112, plate 21 and p, 174 for other examples of the Medici Venus and of the orator.