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Adam Brown · Last edited by Adam Brown on Mon May 30, 2011 9:41 am; edited 1 time in total

I'm afraid there was nothing to say what the name of this sculpture was or who it was by.

It sits beside Provost Skene's House in Aberdeen City Centre and depicts a mother, son and I'm assuming herring although I don't know my fish so I can't be sure.

This is a close up of the fish and not the woman's backside

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Adam Brown · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject:

I have renamed this thread because I now know this sculpture is called “Sea Fantasy” and is by Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones. It was cast by the Morris Singer Foundry in 1971

From

http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/web/files/LocalHistory/sculpture_trail_leaflet.pdf

Sited in open area running from St Nicholas House on Broad Street to Flourmill Lane
This bronze sculpture is by Aberdeen - born artist Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones FRBS, A RCA (1908-1969). At the cent re of the water pool are two dancing figures. Other works by Huxley-Jones include the fountain and gilded figure of Helios, the sun god of Greek mythology, located in the central courtyard of BBC Television Centre in London. He also cast a bronze sculpture of David Livingston, the African explorer, which stands in a niche on the Royal Geographical Society building, London. In 1953 Huxley-Jones won the Jean Masson Davidson Medal; the Society of Portrait Sculptors’ highest award for distinguished services and outstanding achievement.
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