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A rare Bow white figure of
Flora, modelled after the antique from a marble Hellenstic statue once
belonging to the Renaissance family of Farnese and now known as the
Farnese Flora, modelled wearing diaphanous draped classical robes and
holding a wreath in her left hand, and in her right hand she holds the hem
of her flowing robes, her head slightly inclined, standing on a
rectangular base.
c. 1752 – 55
Height: 17 ins (43.5 cms)
For coloured examples of this rare model see Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey
Freeman, Bow Porcelain, p.138, no. 226. Arthur Lane, English Porcelain,
Figures of the Eighteenth Century, pl. 52.
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