P126 - VIENNA FIGURE GROUP OF ROMULUS AND REMUS

 

Circa 1760, blue beehive mark, modeled by Nierdermeyer

Modeled as the twins at play on the she-wolf, a jug spilling water, emblematic of the Tiber River, to one side, on a rocaille base

4 ½ in. (11.4 cm) high, 7 in. (17.8 cm) long.

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 192, plate 92, fig. 325.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” in The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from June 1955 until May 1960.