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Style: Neoclassical
Place of Origin: English
Black basalt figure of Bacchus. Wedgwood C1780.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Exceptionally rare early figure of Bacchus in black basalt. The mixed-case mark places this figure between 1780 and 1785.
He is portrayed in typical style, his head garlanded with g...
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1780s Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Covered Sugar Box in Blue Jasperware. Adams C1790.
By William Adams (Potter)
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine sugar box in 'Adams Blue' jasperware.
William Adams was apprenticed to Josiah Wedgwood, and helped with the development of jasperware. He later founded his own, very success...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Flaxman Ewers in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1830.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the iconic early wedgwood pieces, the pair of ewers Sacred to Neptune & Sacred to Bacchus was designed by Flaxman in the 1780s for Josiah Wedgwood. They have remained popular ...
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Early 19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver lid.
Decorated with Venus and Cupid, as allegories of Night - the one shedding poppies, the other drawing the veil of s...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Antique Neoclassical Plaster Grotesque Herm Statue
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
An early 19th century plaster grotesque herm statue in the neoclassical style circa 1820. Once used as architectural interior decoration, it has a distressed look and depicts a figur...
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Early 19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
A Nun, perhaps a theatrical figure. England, probably Plymouth, circa 1750
By Plymouth Porcelain Factory 1
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An interesting soft-paste porcelain figure of a Dominican Nun, perhaps the theatrical figure Heloise.
Although the Nun appears in various versions in European and English porcelain,...
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Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Edward Bourne, Wedgwood, circa 1780
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Portrait Medallion of Edward Bourne, bricklayer at the Wedgwood factory. A bricklayer was kept on staff in order to maintain the kilns.
This was modelled by Hackwood as an excercise...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Pair of Bacchantes in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1860.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Perhaps the most complex work in black basalt undertaken on any scale by Wedgwood, the Bacchantes, are adapted from sculptures by Clodion. A large and impressive pair, ful of vigour ...
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Mid-19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
19th C Domenico Brucciani Oversized Putto Plaster Classical Bust Grand Tour
By D. Brucciani and Company
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A elegant D Brucciani plaster cast classical mask of a Putto
Domenico Brucciani was born in Lucca, Italy in 1815. He moved to London where he estab...
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Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
19th Century Lead Garden Element
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a wonderful example of a late 19th century English lead putti. These English lead figures were traditionally garden elements; but this example is in...
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Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Lead
Carved Antique Stone Sculpture by a Student of Hugh Casson
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
This weathered antique stone sculpture was reputedly carved by a student of 20th century British architect and artist, Sir Hugh Casson. It depi...
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Mid-20th Century Neoclassical English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Limestone
Pair of framed Roundels in Black Jasperware, Wedgwood, circa 1920
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An exceptionally fine pair of roundels in black jasperware, decorated with two images of Cupid: The first sharpening his arrows; the second, of him st...
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Early 20th Century Neoclassical English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Jasperware Buckle, Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Circa 1795
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A jasper medallion decorated with Aphrodite, set in cut steel as a buckle, probably by Matthew Boulton. Original box.
The Greek goddess Aphrodite is often depicted in ancient art with a dolphin. In mythology, dolphins were considered sacred to Aphrodite, and they were associated with love, beauty, and fertility. According to one legend, Aphrodite emerged from the sea on a shell-borne chariot drawn by dolphins, and the creatures were said to be her faithful servants. As a result, images of Aphrodite with dolphins became a popular motif in Greek art, appearing on vases, sculptures, and other decorative objects. The association between Aphrodite and dolphins has continued through the centuries, and the image of the goddess with a dolphin remains a popular symbol of love and beauty.
Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was an English manufacturer and entrepreneur who was best known for his contributions to the Industrial Revolution...
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Mid-19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cut Steel
Basalt Portrait Medallion, William of Orange, Wedgwood, circa 1785
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A self-framing portrait medallion of William of Orange. The mixed-vase mark dates this example firmly in the 1780s. Wedgwood produced a number of co...
Category
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Bust of Sir Isaac Newton, Pearlware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1790
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A pearlware bust of Sir Isaac Newton, by Enoch Wood. The oak pedestal adds dignity to an attractive rendering of this great man of science. A handwrit...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pearlware
Early 20th Century Italian Classical Composite Figure of Discobulus
Located in Madison, MS
This early 20th century Italian classical composite figure of Discobulus would be a wonderful statement piece in your home of office. It is heavy and was handcrafted out of stone in ...
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Early 20th Century Neoclassical English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Figure of a Nun, Perhaps Heloise, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classic example of early bow porcelain.
The figure is of a Dominican Nun, and is based on a continental model, probably Meissen.
Bow produced a number of apparently religious...
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Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Black Basalt Reclining Figures, Cleopatra and Lucretia, Neale circa 1780
By Neale & Co.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine, rare pair of figures in black basalt from the Neale Manufactory. The Neale pottery was founded in 1778 and ran until around 1792. They made very fine wares, and were on good terms with Wedgwood, with whom they combined shipments to the continent.
For two similar figures marked for Neale & Co. see Diana Edwards, Black Basalt, Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers, Suffolk, 1994, p. 208, figs. 313 & 314.
Cleopatra and Lucretia are two women from different time periods and historical contexts, but are linked by their importance in Roman history, as well as by their tragic ends.
Cleopatra was a famous queen of ancient Egypt, who ruled from 51-30 BC. She was the last pharaoh of Egypt and is remembered for her intelligence, beauty, and political savvy. Cleopatra was involved in a romantic relationship with the Roman general and statesman, Julius Caesar, and later with the Roman general and politician, Mark Antony...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Seal, I Still Hope, Derby Porcelain Works, circa 1760
By Derby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A delightul porcelain seal, depicting a young lady, seated on a mound. It is painted with the motto J'ESPRE ENCORE, or I Still Hope. No doubt this was intended as a gift, to be given...
Category
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver CAP and dipper.
Decorated with Cupid playing the lyre, and Cupid singing. The God of Love suggests this was intended a...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Scent, or Perfume, Bottle, in Pale Blue Jasperware, Wedgwood C1790
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A scent bottle in pale blue jasperware, with original silver cap with chain, surmounted by a wonderfully wrought squirrel.
Note the way the beads have been added individually; this ...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
19th Century English Royal Worcester Porcelain Fairy Candlestick Lamp Standard
By Royal Worcester
Located in Forney, TX
An exquisite English Royal Worcester porcelain Samuel Clarke Commissioned
"Cricklite" candle "fairy lamp" standard - base, the rare figural statue in the form of a Grecian water carrier, modeled by James Hadley (English, 1837-1903), the exceptionally executed, richly detailed Neoclassical figure holding a vessel in her left hand and carrying an urn upon her head, wearing flowing robes, the body in blush ivory, the robes of green/gold hue, with gilt highlights. Circa 1898
Signed, underfoot having green printed mark, "Worcester Shot Enamel England 2 125" and imprinted markings by its side.
Dimensions: (approx)
9.5" High, 3" Diameter
Provenance:
From the estate of Ali A. Abssi (1934-2020) and Florence Hall Abssi (1919-2014), founders of the Ishtar Gate...
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Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Winter, from the Four Seasons, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A personification of Winter, from The Four Seasons.
Unusually fine condition for a figure of this period.
Category
Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Oliver Cromwell, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A self-framing portrait medallion of Oliver Cromwell, MP: rebel, regicide, suppressor of Ireland, persecutor of Catholics, and Dictator. He was posthum...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
19th Century Bath Stone Sculpture of a Young Hercules
Located in Essex, MA
English, 19th century. Composite bath stone garden sculpture of a standing young Hercules with lion head cape. Unmarked. Approx. h. 55", w. 16", d. 14".
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19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Pair of Cast Iron Putti Figures
Located in London, GB
A charming pair of cast iron putti figures. Early to mid-20th century, great untouched patina.
Category
Early 20th Century Neoclassical English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Fortune Teller Figure. Bow Porcelain C1750
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A young woman standing with the remains of a staff in her left hand, and in apparent apprehension as her future and fortune is being read by an exotic, enigmatic, bearded figure, app...
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Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Chess Piece King, Wedgwood, circa 1800
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A white jasper King from the Flaxman chess set.
Unmarked, which is not unusual for chess pieces of this period.
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Figure Faun with Flute, Wedgwood, circa 1870
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
After the antique “Piping Faun” now in the Louvre Museum; the result of it being bought by Napoleon from the Borghese collection.
The "Piping Faun" is...
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1870s Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Figure: Female Pedlar, Possibly Peg Woffington, Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
On a mound base decorated with painted floral sprigs. She wears a pale pink-mauve washed shift with iron-red sleeves and cloak, pale mauve and pink stomacher and a sprigged white shi...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Doctor, from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Il Dottore from the Commedia dell’Arte, in the white.
He stands in an histrionic pose against a tree stump and wears a high brimmed hat (presumably a black academic bonnet), long-buttoned coat over frilled cuffs, falling jabeaux, breeches, boots and a cloak; his right hand on hip, his left arm and hand raised. Slightly grey-white porcelain; even, unctuous glaze. Straw translucency. Underside wiped; air hole at centre. Square hole at rear for mount. Measure: H 6.3 in (16 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection, from Stockspring Antiques, London, 1998. The Miss G...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure, Mercury, Bow Porcelain, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
He wears a winged helmet and sandals, a loosely draped pink, white, and yellow washed cloak over a short tunic, and leans arrogantly against bales, his message sack over his left sho...
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Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of figures: Jupiter and Juno, or Zeus and Hera. Bow Porcelain C1752
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
She stands barefoot, wearing a long-sleeved robe in white, deep pink and washed pale yellow and partly edged with gold; a red and gilt-topped sceptre in her right hand, an outsize pe...
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1750s Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure 'Scapino, ' from the Commedia Dell'arte, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Scappino, or Scapin, a zany (zanni) character from the commedia dell'arte: a buffoon, schemer and scoundrel, and the title character in Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin, first staged in 1671. The Bow figure shows him standing to right against a tree stump, right leg forward; right arm concealed in a tabarro (cape), and a mask in his left hand. He wears a white doublet, gilt frogged in the Hungarian manner, neck ruff, pale yellow-washed breeches above buckled shoes; a pouch on a red-brown strap and a dagger in a scabbard at the waist. Low square plinth base washed in typical pale Bow ‘lettuce’ green. No discernible translucency. H. 5.0 in (12.6 cm).
Provenance: Taylor Collection; Simon Spero London, 2008; the Faith and Dewayne Perry Collection.
The Scapino figure was presumably based on the Meissen modelled 1743-45 by Peter Reinicke, assisted by Käendler, and from the series produced for Johann Adlf II, Duke of Weissenfels, after an engraving by Francois Joullain (1662-1753) for Riccobin’s Historie du Théatre Italien, 1728. The modelling and features of the Bow figure suggest the work of the ‘Muses Modeller’, and the pallete, gilding and detail are also those of the muses modeller figures. This figure illustrated Bradshaw, 1992, as circa 1753, Plate 10 (A12), p.64.
Scapino is depicted musically in William...
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Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure, Sportsman Toper, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Probably an early prototype, the largely open base showing an apparently unique structure described by Watney as ‘a favourite primitive buttressed by a strong overall cone-shape and further strengthened by a cut-out additional layer inside the base in the manner of pastry making.’ (Freeman Collection, Forward, 1982).
Toper is an old English word for a drunk.
Annulet Mark.
Prov: Taylor Coll, Albert Amor...
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Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Jasperware Portrait Medallion, Marc Antony, Wedgwood, circa 1778
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An important early portrait medallion of Marc Antony in plain white jasper, probably predating the invention of the ‘dip’ process, which is why it i...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Figure of Pointing Boy by Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Presumably based on the work of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), also known as Il Fiammingo.
A small series of Chelsea figures from the late 1740s was also ba...
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Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Tragic Couple Antony and Cleopatra, Creamware, Ralph & Enoch Wood, circa 1780
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Cleopatra and Mark Antony, in enamelled creamware. After a model by Ralph and Enoch Wood, and quite likely made by this important partnership.
The figur...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
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Creamware
Figure: David Garrick and the Shoeshine Boy, Bow Porcelain, circa 1751
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fashionably dressed gentleman, almost certainly the actor David Garrick: he wears a white frockcoat, pink waistcoat and red breeches, all with embroide...
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Kitty Clive Figure
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of Bow's theatrical figures.
The actress Mrs Catherine (Kitty) Clive, 1711-1785, as Mrs Riot, the Fine Lady, introduced, with The Fine Gentleman, into David Garrick...
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Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Figure of The Vintner's Companion, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Moulded in a dense body in typical muses modeller style and with slightly drab glaze. She stands by a fruiting vinestock and carries an open basket of grapes in her right hand, her e...
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Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Itinerant Ballad Singer figures. Bow porcelain C1748
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Flemish man and wife, in the white. He wears an open coat, waistcoat, breeches and tricorn hat, and plays a hurdy-gurdy. She wears a sleeved dress, long apron and linen cap and carri...
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1740s Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Harlequin and Columbine Dancing, Chelsea, circa 1755
By Chelsea Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the best: Harlequin & Columbine Dancing, after the Meissen figure, from the series of characters from the Commedia dell'Arte.
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Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bust of Mercury in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1820.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Wedgwood produced a very successful line of Library Busts, of which Minerva and Mercury were the longest in production, running right up into the 20th century - they make a good pair...
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Early 19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Bust of Minverva in Black Basalt. Wedgwood C1880.
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Wedgwood produced a very successful line of Library Busts, of which Minerva and Mercury were the longest in production, running right up into the 20th century - they make a good pair...
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Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Basalt Portrait Medallion, Tiberius Augustus, Wedgwood, circa 1775
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A fine large self-framing portrait medallion of the Emperor Tiberius Augustus, second emperor of Rome.
Unmarked, as were many of these medallions.
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Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
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