A BOW WHITE ALLEGORICAL FIGURE
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A BOW WHITE ALLEGORICAL FIGURE

CIRCA 1752

Closed10 June 2010

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GBP 1,875

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A BOW WHITE ALLEGORICAL FIGURE
CIRCA 1752
From a set of the Senses and emblematic of Smell, modelled as a lady leaning to her right, smelling a flower and with flowers on her apron, in a long flowing dress and seated on a divided tree-stump applied with flowers and foliage on a shaped rockwork base (some very slight chipping to foliage at back, minute chip to hem of dress at front)
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a similar example see Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures, Circa 1748-1774 (London, 1992), p. 127, pl. 100, no. (B44).