
Fergus Gambon
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Provenance
Phillips sale, 13 September 2000, 215
Distinguished Private Collection
Exhibited
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The Meissen prototype is inspired by a drawing by Christophe Huet, see Len and Yvonne Adams, Meissen Portrait Figures, p.115 for the figure and her companion, 'The Marquis'. Other Bow examples are illustrated by Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures (1992), p.154, pl.163 and English Porcelain Figures (1981), p.161, pl.77. See also Frank Stoner, Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures (1955), pl.74. A Meissen version of the figure was sold by Bonhams on 17 May 2006, lot 55.