P033A - TWO DERBY FIGURES OF MINERVA AND MARS
Circa 1760
Mars modeled standing before a military trophy, Minerva holding a sword aloft, a shield with the head of Medusa in her other hand
(Replaced sword, restoration to hands and helmet, likely off through neck)
Minerva: 15 ½ in. (39.4) high
Mars: 13 ½ in. (34.3) high
LITERATURE
Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 199, plate 168, figs. 615, 616.
EXIBITION
On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” at The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art between June 1955 and May 1960