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A rare Bow figure of Henry Woodward, circa 1750
18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
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A rare Bow figure of Henry Woodward, circa 1750
Modelled in the role of The Fine Gentleman from Garrick's farce 'Lethe', wearing a tricorn hat and a jacket above lace-trimmed waistcoat and breeches, standing on a square base with canted corners and incised with diamond pattern, 27.5cm high (some losses and damages)
Footnotes
The model is taken from an undated mezzotint by James McArdell from a drawing by Francis Hayman. For another example together with Hayman's drawing and McArdell's print, see Raymond C.Yarbrough, Bow Porcelain and the London Theatre (1996), pp.28 and 29, figs.40-42. Yarbrough quotes Woodward, who, when appearing in the 'Bays in Council' in Dublin in 1757, wrote 'My figure, too, in Earthenware is shown, So much I'm lov'd and val'd by the town'. Further examples are illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman (1982), p.122, fig.187 and Made at New Canton (2000), p.85, fig.72. A dated example inscribed 1750 to the underside is in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, see Yvonne Hackenbroch (1957), pl.77 fig.241 and pl.145, fig.241. A fine coloured pair of Kitty Clive and Henry Woodward from the Godden Reference Collection was sold by Bonhams 14 April 2010, lot 88.