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Lot 164

A Bristol figure emblematic of Water, circa 1775

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Bristol figure emblematic of Water, circa 1775

From a set of the Elements, the female figure wearing classical drapery painted with floral sprigs, with a wreath in her hair, holding a net filled with fish in her right hand, her left resting on an urn gushing water, three further fish at her feet, raised on a shell-moulded mound base, 25.4cm high, impressed mark 'To'

Footnotes

A similar figure is illustrated by F Severne Mackenna, Champion's Bristol Porcelain (1947), fig.103. The impressed mark 'To' is the personal mark of John Toulouse and suggests a link with Bow, Worcester, Caughley and Chamberlain figures. A figure emblematic of Air from this series from the Liane Richards Collection was sold by Bonhams on 13 April 2016, lot 195.

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