A WHITE PORCELAIN COMPOSITE TABLE GARNITURE MODELLED AS AMPHITRITE AND NEPTUNE DRAWN IN CHARIOTS BY HIPPOCAMPI

AMPHITRITE CIRCA 1770, PROBABLY ORLEANS, NEPTUNE AND THREE HIPPOCAMPI 19TH CENTURY, ENGLISH, ONE HIPPOCAMP 20TH CENTURY, CONTINENTAL

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A WHITE PORCELAIN COMPOSITE TABLE GARNITURE MODELLED AS AMPHITRITE AND NEPTUNE DRAWN IN CHARIOTS BY HIPPOCAMPI
AMPHITRITE CIRCA 1770, PROBABLY ORLEANS, NEPTUNE AND THREE HIPPOCAMPI 19TH CENTURY, ENGLISH, ONE HIPPOCAMP 20TH CENTURY, CONTINENTAL
Amphitrite with her hair in a chignon, seated in her shell-chariot, a fruit in her extended right hand with Cupid at her side and two doves at her feet; Neptune with his right hand extended, shells and a fish-tailed mer-boy holding a conch at his feet; the hippocampi with rearing heads, gaping mouths and fluttering manes, pierced harnesses around their necks
Amphitrite: 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high (2)

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Thelma Chrysler-Foy; sold Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 22 and 23 May 1959, lot 418 (as Vincennes).

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For a similar model called 'L'Aurore, see Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, 'Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres' Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris 14 October-16 January 1978, fig. 453, p. 151.