A Victorian parian ware bust of the water nymph 'Clytie', after the original by C Delpech, modelled with her head downcast and one breast revealed, raised over a sunflower head, on later wooden socle base.

Clytie daughter of Oceanus and Tethys had an unrequited love for Helios, the sun god. Heartbroken she was turned into a sun-flower or heliotrope, which turns its head always to look longingly at Helios's chariot of the sun. This depiction shows the body of the nymph grown from the flower of the heliotrope at the base.

From Brereton Hall, Cheshire

Height 53cm

Width 37cm

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