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Title:
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Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This statuary porcelain reproduction of Marochetti's statue of Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy is illustrated in Robert Copeland's Parian. Copeland's Statuary Porcelain, (Antique Collectors Club, Ltd., Woodbridge, Surrey, 2007, p.179). It is not specified where this example was at the time of the book's publication. There is no illustration of it in the Copeland (now Spode) records, though it is included in the firm's Statuary Price Book. Two different prices are given for it in code, which Copeland believed to represent four and a half guineas and ten guineas, suggesting that it was issued in two different sizes. He believed that this statuette was probably privately sponsored, as opposed to having the backing of one of the Art Unions, and that it was not likely to have been produced in large numbers.
It is one of only two works by Marochetti to be reproduced by the Copeland firm. The other example, amongst the very first works produced by the firm in Statuary Porcelain, and shown at the first National Exhibition of Industrial Art, held in Manchester in 1845/46, was a reduction of the statue of Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, of which no examples seem to have survived. After Marochetti moved to England in 1848, it was the firm of Minton which seems to have enjoyed a privileged relationship with him, using his models and designs on many occasions. The reason why Copelands should have been chosen for the statuette of Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy is not clear.
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Material(s): |
Statuary porcelain (Parian Ware)
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
Finish: |
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Technique: |
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Genre: |
Portrait Statuette (seated)
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Colours: |
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Year: |
1862 |
Height: |
0.38 metres |
Width: |
0 metres |
Depth: |
0 metres |
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Key: |
6189 |
Acc. No.: |
6189 |
Col. No.: |
6189 |
Number of views: |
2521 |
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