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Lot 143
A rare Derby figure of a young man Circa 1760.
8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £780 inc. premium
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Circa 1760.
Wearing a green hat, pale-yellow flower sprigged jacket and red breeches painted with puce prunus sprays, standing holding a basket filled with flowers and a cherry in his outstretched right hand, before a tree stump on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves, 12.9cm high, patch marks (the plume of his hat replaced and tiny chips to the brim, minute chips to the finger tips of his right hand)
Wearing a green hat, pale-yellow flower sprigged jacket and red breeches painted with puce prunus sprays, standing holding a basket filled with flowers and a cherry in his outstretched right hand, before a tree stump on a mound base applied with flowers and leaves, 12.9cm high, patch marks (the plume of his hat replaced and tiny chips to the brim, minute chips to the finger tips of his right hand)
Footnotes
Albert Amor exhibited a similar example, Birds in Branches, October 2000, no 11. Another variation of the model holding a basket of fruiting vines emblematic of 'Autumn', together with a companion figure of 'Spring' as young girl is illustrated by Dennis G. Rice, Derby Porcelain (1983), fig 91
