Antique Copeland Parian Statue Flora by W Marshall

Description: Selling Antique Copeland Parian Bisque Statue of Flora After William Marshall (English, 1813-1894). Flora holding a tambourine and standing beside a tree stump garlanded with roses. Tree stump marked "Marshall fec.t Cheverton sculp" and "Copeland". Base reads "Art Union of London 1848". Measures 18 inches high x 7 inches wide x 6 inches deep. Used condition, minor dents, some wears according to its age. Repairs to the tambourin. Please see the photos. Benjamin Cheverton Benjamin was an artist who designed a reducing machine with the assistance of the engineer John Isaac Hawkins that made it possible to create small scale replicas of sculptures. The machine was first made around 1828 and patented on 16 January 1844. He showed his machine at the 1851 Exhibition, that reduced sculptural works so they could be made into porcelain figures. He created this parian ware version of Marshall’s sculpture for the Art Union of London. William Calder Marshall (1813-1894) - Marshall’s best known work today is his group for the Albert Memorial, depicting Agriculture. He was elected ARA in 1845, and full Academician in 1852. His specialty was figures from mythology and ideal figures. He favoured the Greek profile, and a generally classical look, but with a strong tendency in his female subjects towards purity, softness and girlishness, an affectation being their perfectly conical breasts, without any effect of gravity. These characteristics lent themselves well to the popular taste, and hence reproduction in Parian porcelain for collectors, and a number of his works were popularised in this format – Hermione, Hebe, The Dancing Girl Reposing, Sabrina, and so forth. As well as girls, and a few heroes, he also produced popular sculptures of children, in particular another work reproduced in Parian called the Broken Pitcher. Calder Marshall won some important commissions for public art, including as well as the Agriculture group already mentioned, portrait statues of Jenner, now in Kensington Gardens (previously sited in Trafalgar Square), Peel for Manchester (discussed on this page), with two allegorical girls, the pediment of Bolton Town Hall showing the spirit of the city with Manufacturing and Commerce etc, and also in Bolton a fine statue of Samuel Crompton, and back in London, sculpture for the entrance of Temple Gardens towards the Embankment, and the much battered portrait bust of Newton in Leicester Square. He also made two figures for the Houses of Parliament, and a frieze in St Paul's Cathedral. He retired as an academician in 1892, and after his death, his London studio in Ebury Street was found to contain casts of nearly all his important sculptures. The Art Union of London, established in 1837, was an organisation which distributed works of art amongst its subscribers by lottery.

Price: 780 AUD

Location: Mangerton, New South Wales

End Time: 2024-08-06T08:35:33.000Z

Shipping Cost: 130.38 AUD