Frühe Keramik-Figur 'Römische Nächstenliebe' /... Lot 161984
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Frühe Keramik-Figur 'Römische Nächstenliebe' / 'Caritas Romana' / An early pottery pearlware figure group 'Roman Charity' / 'Cimon and Pero', Ralph Wood, Burslem, Staffordshire, um 1785
Material: ceramic, polychrome painted, glazed,
Mark: unmarked,
Depiction: young woman with a baby and a son giving breast milk in a bowl to her father lying in chains, Simon with his daughter Pero (Simon and Pero), title on a plaque on the side 'ROMAN CHARITY,
Height: 19 cm,
Condition: good, no chips, Pero's neck with hairline crack in the glaze,
Literature: 'English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840' by Pat Halfpenny, page 56, figure 1.
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