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Lot 266
8 June 2005, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,920 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Derby dry-edge figure of a Boy Shepherd Piper
circa 1750-56
white, modelled standing leaning on a treestump, wearing an open-necked shirt, jacket and breeches, looking to his right and playing the bagpipes, a hound seated at his feet, on a circular base, 16.8cm (minor restoration only to one finger, tips of pipes and hat brim)
white, modelled standing leaning on a treestump, wearing an open-necked shirt, jacket and breeches, looking to his right and playing the bagpipes, a hound seated at his feet, on a circular base, 16.8cm (minor restoration only to one finger, tips of pipes and hat brim)
Footnotes
For a similar figure and his shepherdess companion, see Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures, fig. 21, p. 40 and B17, p. 38.
