P001 - PAIR OF BOW FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF FIRE AND WATER

 

Circa 1765, red anchor and dagger mark

From the series of the Elements, Fire modeled standing and holding a flaming urn at her side, the sea god standing upon the back of a large dolphin, each on a rocaille molded base enriched in turquoise and gilt

(Fire restored through her left wrist and the join where the figure meets the base; Neptune broken through waist and upper arms)

9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm) high (2)

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, pp. 94; 197, plate 155, figs. 527 and 530.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the Scott-Allen Collection at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1996

 

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” at The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art between June 1955 and May 1960