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Lot 135
A Derby biscuit group of musicians Circa 1775-80.
8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,560 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Derby biscuit group of musicians
Circa 1775-80.
Modelled as four young boys wearing hats, coats and breeches variously standing and seated on a rocky mound base below a leafy tree, playing a clarinet, a French horn, the flute and cymbals, 27.5cm high, patch marks, incised crown, crossed batons and D marks, incised No 333 and 'repairer's' mark of a incised star for Isaac Farnsworth (some repair to the French horn and clarinet, minor chips to applied flowers and leaves)
Modelled as four young boys wearing hats, coats and breeches variously standing and seated on a rocky mound base below a leafy tree, playing a clarinet, a French horn, the flute and cymbals, 27.5cm high, patch marks, incised crown, crossed batons and D marks, incised No 333 and 'repairer's' mark of a incised star for Isaac Farnsworth (some repair to the French horn and clarinet, minor chips to applied flowers and leaves)
Footnotes
For a similar group see Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures (1990), p 361, fig 299
