Thalia and Euterpe, Two Companian Figures, after William Beattie, Bates, Brown-Westhead & Moore,

Thalia and Euterpe, Two Companian Figures, after William Beattie, Bates, Brown-Westhead & Moore, circa 1860, one holds a syrinx, the other a comedy mask, on (titled) circular bases, both impressed "BBW&M", 36.5cm and 37cm high respectively See illustration A similar figure of Thalia is illustrated in The Parian Phenomenon, A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary & Busts, edited by Paul Atterbury, published by Richard Dennis, fig.794, pg.240. Thalia was the muse of Comedy and Pastoral Poetry. A companion figure to Terpsichore, also modelled by W Beattie.