24 Jan 2007
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Dr Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures
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The Dr Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures
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A Derby group of The Tithe Pig
circa 1765
The vicar, the farmer and his wife standing beneath a flowering tree, the farmer holding a piglet under his arm, the wife presenting her tenth child in swaddling clothes to the horrified vicar, more piglets, a basket of eggs and a sheaf of corn on the ground before them, 17cm high, patch marks (some minor losses to the bocage, minor restoration to corn, some patches of misfiring)
The vicar, the farmer and his wife standing beneath a flowering tree, the farmer holding a piglet under his arm, the wife presenting her tenth child in swaddling clothes to the horrified vicar, more piglets, a basket of eggs and a sheaf of corn on the ground before them, 17cm high, patch marks (some minor losses to the bocage, minor restoration to corn, some patches of misfiring)
Sold for
£540
inc. premium
Footnotes
- This group was based on an engraving by Boitard after J S Muller. See Lancaster (1940), pp 253-5. Many similar versions were also produced in Staffordshire pearlware. See also Brayshaw Gilhespy (1965) for a very unusual set of three separate figures
Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics
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