Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures Of The Victorian Era (1970), p. A172, fig. 270.
Details
An equestrian figure of William III
possibly Sampson Smith, modelled facing right, wearing a plumed hat, long coat and boots, holding a pistol in his right hand, sparsely coloured and gilt, on oval base in gilt script, William III 1680/Derry Aughrim Enniskillen/and the Boyne, circa 1870 (rubbing to gilding) -- 35cm. high; an equestrian figure of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, indistinctly titled to base, circa 1870 (rubbing to gilding, minor crack) -- 36cm. high; an equestrian figure of William III, circa 1880 (rubbing to gilding) -- 29cm. high
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possibly Sampson Smith, modelled facing right, wearing a plumed hat, long coat and boots, holding a pistol in his right hand, sparsely coloured and gilt, on oval base in gilt script, William III 1680/Derry Aughrim Enniskillen/and the Boyne, circa 1870 (rubbing to gilding) -- 35cm. high; an equestrian figure of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, indistinctly titled to base, circa 1870 (rubbing to gilding, minor crack) -- 36cm. high; an equestrian figure of William III, circa 1880 (rubbing to gilding) -- 29cm. high
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