A pair of  Decorative White Parian Figurines of two Dancers modeled AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA (1757-1822), ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY.
Dancing Girl with Her Hands on Her Hips and Dancing Girl with Her Finger on Her Chin.
In good condition no chips or cracks.
Unsigned Approximately:16" High
 
About Parian Ware:
Parian ware is a type of biscuit porcelain imitating marble. It was developed around 1845 by the Staffordshire pottery manufacturer Mintons, and named after Paros, the Greek island renowned for its fine-textured, white Parian marble, used since antiquity for sculpture. It was also contemporaneously referred to as Statuary Porcelain by Copeland. Parian was essentially designed to imitate carved marble,[1] with the great advantage that it could be prepared in a liquid form and cast in a mould, enabling mass production.