Ms. #534 appears to be preparing for a very, very happy New Year's celebration, judging from the magnum of champagne she holds in her left hand. Despite her bottle of bubbly and a revealing robe that emphasizes her considerable cleavage and exposes a black-stockinged leg, her expression appears rather shy and demure. Maybe she is just deep in thought, trying to remember where she left her bottle opener. Of excellent sharp bisque and detailed modeling, she is 6.75 inches tall and is incised "1101." Attached behind her is a green urn adorned with a jasperware grapevine around the rim. She is part of a series of lovely ladies in rather revealing outfits posed by a small jasperware container for matches or toothpicks. Although she and her sisters are sometimes attributed to Schafer and Vater, who also made extensive use of jasperware and loved long-legged lasses in black stockings, to me the modeling, especially of the hands and faces, does not look like Schafer's work. Next week I will picture more pretty ladies from this series.
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