pearlware-model-of-romulus-remus
Lot 4033
Pearlware Model of Romulus & Remus
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
England, circa 1830, modeled with two naked infants nursing from a recumbent she-wolf before a flowering bocage, with a bird perched on the back of the she-wolf, on a naturalistic rocky base with encrusted flowers, with title to base.

7 x 7 x 4 in.

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Paint flakes especially to the black base line; surface restoration noted to the left wolf leg and the left boy's arm.