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Bow
(England 1744–1776)
- Title
- Neptune or Water
- Year
- circa 1752-circa 1755
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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19.6 x 11.2 x 9.6 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.79
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The model is attributable to the anonymous artist known as the ‘Muses modeller’. The figure would originally have formed part of a set of the four elements, water being represented by Neptune, god of the sea. The Bow set was later reissued on rococo scrollwork bases.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 46 (colour illus.). cat.no. 47
