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Jane Short Antiques has dated this Parian Ware Figural Group to the 19th Century.
It is a large and very striking piece with the wood nymph's arm around the doe who gazes up at her. She is holding the fawn in her lap as he licks her hand.
The base is inscribed C.B.Birch. 1866
It is in very good condition with no damage. It is a heavy and substantial piece weighing 7.5kg.
As a child he showed artistic promise, and at the age of twelve he was admitted to study at Somerset House School of Design. In the following year, 1845, his father moved to Germany, and Birch attended the Royal Academy in Berlin, where he produced his first significant work, a bust of the British Ambassador to Berlin, the Earl of Westmoreland
Birch returned to England in 1852 and became a student at the Royal Academy of Arts, gaining two medals. For ten years he was principal assistant to John Henry Foley R.A. and from 1852 till his death he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, and was elected an Associate member of the academy in 1880.
Birch won a significant prize of £600 in an open competition in 1864 from the Art Union of London for his marble work The Wood Nymph, which was judged to be the "best original figure or group" It was subsequently selected as one of the representative works of British art for the Vienna, Philadelphia and Paris Exhibitions. To mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign in 1887, Birch was commissioned to carve a statue, in Carrara marble, of the Queen for Udaipur in India. Subsequently, at least eight copies of this statue were cast in bronze for locations in Britain and throughout the British Empire. In 18 91 he was one of eight eminent artists who were invited to submit designs for new British coinage.
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Jane Short Antiques has dated this Parian Ware Figural Group to the 19th Century.
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Parian Ware Figural Group by Charles Bell Birch Parian Ware Figural Group by Charles Bell Burch ((1832-1893)
