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Lot 144

A Chelsea figure of Flora, circa 1765

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Chelsea figure of Flora, circa 1765

Modelled standing wearing a yellow headdress, purple and yellow cloak, and floral robes, her right hand raised to her nose, her left hand resting on covered urn on a plinth beside her, the plinth and angular base painted to simulate marble and applied with flowering vine, 24.5cm high, gold anchor mark

Footnotes

This is after the original Meissen figure of Smell from the Five Senses modelled by J F Eberlein in 1748. A similar figure was exhibited by Albert Amor in 2018 and is illustrated in the catalogue, Chelsea Porcelain, no.5. A Bow version is illustrated by Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures (1992), p.119, pl.81 and discussed at p.103.

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