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Lot 135

A Derby biscuit group of musicians
Circa 1775-80.

8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,560 inc. premium

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A 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)

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For a similar group see Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures (1990), p 361, fig 299

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