A Minton parian figure of William Shakespeare by John Bell, mid-19th century, 45.5cm high (small restored chip to the base)


See Paul Atterbury, The Parian Phenomenon, fig. 133, p. 86 and fig. 37, p. 25. A full scale plaster statue, after the bust over the Poet's tomb at Stratford-upon-Avon, was shown by Bell at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Summerley's Art Manufactures exhibited the parian version by Minton at the same time, surmounting a bronze clock flanked by figures of Tragedy and Comedy.