26th Mar, 2010 9:00 GMT/BST
Spring Catalogue Sale
47
A Parian Porcelain Figure of Musidora, after William Theed, Copeland 1867, for the Ceramic and...
executed in 1866 for the Prince of Wales, exhibited at the 1866 RA, and placed in Marlborough House, London. Musidora is a water nymph featured in James Thompson's The Seasons (1730) who was loved by Damon, a young swane. From a copse he sees her bathing and writes the following lines in sand on the river bank: Bathe on, my fair, - yet unbeheld save by the second I, of a fateful love; I go to guard thy haunt, to keep from thy recess each vagrant foot and each licentious eye
For a similar figure see The Parian Phenomenon, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, page 153, illus 518
Sold for £180
Estimated at £200 - £300
Some restorations noted, especially to right hand, and possibly elsewhere - but quality of restoration seems high, and it is hard to distinguish. 100210
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