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Bow Group of The Fortune Teller
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Print Details
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Request Details
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This item is no longer available
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Dates
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Circa 1750
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Dimensions
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17.10cm high
(6.73 inches high)
14.20cm wide
(5.59 inches wide)
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Origin
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England
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Description
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This is an extremely rare Bow group of The Fortune Teller, modelled by the so called ‘Muses Modeller’. The lady in a pale yellow, and puce trimmed dress with a foliate garland and the fortune teller wearing a puce coloured cloak and foliate headdress, red boots and holding her hand, a book at their feet and raised upon a shaped mound base.
Height: 17.1 cm
Base: 14.2 cm
Provenance: Sir Jasper and Lady More, Linley Hall, Shropshire
Literature:
Peter Bradshaw Bow Porcelain Figures (1992) p.76, pl.42
Patricia Ferguson, Ceramics: 400 years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces – for a very similar decorated version and a full description from where this group derives.
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Condition
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Please ask for condition report
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Literature
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The inspiration for this model was taken from a print announced in the Mercure in April 1738 by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline titled ‘La bonne aventure’ (1738) after a painting by François Boucher (1703-70), for a Beauvais tapestry in the series 'The Italian Village Scenes'. A copy of the etched and engraved print is in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Circa 1750-4.
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