P006 - DERBY FIGURE OF JUNO AND THE PEACOCK

 

Circa 1765

Modeled standing, a peacock at her side, on a shell-molded rocaille base

(restored through left wrist, tip of her nose chipped, fingers gone on her right hand)

7 ¾ in. (19.7 cm) high

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, pp. 85; 197, plate 152, fig. 515.

 

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