A PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE FIGURES OF SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON
CIRCA 1810-20
细节
A PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE FIGURES OF SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON
Circa 1810-20
Each author in contemporary dress modelled leaning on books stacked on a plinth at opposing sides, one moulded with emblems of the theater, the other with a scene from 'Paradise Lost', on a square black marbled base
15 3/8in. (39cm.) high (2)
来源
Both with D.M. & P. Manheim, New York
出版
Manheim, pl. no. 76 & 77
拍品专文
See Halfpenny, p. 181, for a similar example in the City Museum & Art Gallery Stoke-on-Trent. This pair of literary figures also appears in Derby porcelain.