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Lot 218

A rare Lowestoft figure of a lady musician, circa 1770-80

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Lowestoft figure of a lady musician, circa 1770-80

Left in the white, modelled as a smiling young woman standing upon a low mound base moulded with scrolls and applied with flowers and leaves, a mandolin or lute held in her left hand, and balanced on her slightly raised left leg, her shoes and bodice applied with delicate ribbons, 16.4cm high

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Provenance
Dr Peter Bradshaw Collection, Bonhams sale, 24 January 2007, lot 12

Moulds for part of the torso and head and of the left arm of this figure were found on the Lowestoft factory site, see Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), p.142, pls.182-3. A similar figure with a high footed base is illustrated at p.138, pl.175. Godden identifies two distinct but related groups of figures attributable to Lowestoft at pp.134-41. The present lot belongs to the group which he speculates could be the earlier of the two. See also Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, Vol.2 (1985), nos.119-22.

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