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Glazed earthenware ('pearlware') group; press-moulded; symbolic of the French Revolution; to the right is a male figure in a tunic and sandals standing on a mound covered with broken columns and a chain (probably allegorical of the Storming of the Bastille), his right hand supported by one of the pieces of masonry; in his right hand he holds out a sword and in his left supports an oval shield with three fleurs de lys in relief; at the left is a female figure in classical dress standing on a piece of stone; her left arm is bent and over her right hand is a bonnet of Liberty resting against an obelisk in the centre of the group; there are clasped hands in relief on the support of the obelisk.
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