Lot Details
Lot 130
Set of Four Plymouth (William Cookworthy) Porcelain White Figures of the Continents
Circa 1770, unmarked
All four modeled standing on carved rococo-scroll bases, the semi-nude America with feathered headdress and tunic, her right hand drawing an arrow from a quiver, a prairie dog at her feet; Asia wearing a 'jeweled diadem, necklace and bracelet, her décolleté silk robes revealing her left shoulder, holding a censor, a camel at her side; Africa with a drape at her hip, a crocodile and a lion at her side, and an elephant mask helmet at her feet; and Europe as a classic muse holding a book and an artist's palette, a horse, cannon and cuirass at her feet.
Height of larger 13 1/2 inches.
Provenance:
T.D. & T.O. Kellock Collection.
Sotheby's & Co., London, 18 July 1972, lot 127.
Exhibited:
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, October 2004 - January 2005.
For a set of four similar white examples, see Sotheby's, London 9 May 1941, lot 23 and a colored set, 27 February 1968, lot 80. The Plymouth Museum preserves a colored set; these are currently on display at the 'William Cookworthy: Pioneer of Porcelain' Exhibition 2017-18 at the New Cookworthy Museum, Kingsbridge. For an illustration of the Longton Hall version of these models, see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 80.
C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
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