A porcelain figure of Ceres attributed to Samuel Gilbody (Liverpool) c.1758-60, after Longton Hall, standing and holding a sheaf of corn and a sickle in her right hand, wearing a flowered robe in the Classical manner, a putto reaching up towards her on her left side, raised on a domed green base, some good restoration, 15.4cm.Provenance: the Roy Hogarth Collection. Bonhams, 13th December 2006, lot 172.Cf. Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain, p.310, fig. 7.75.