Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. C267, fig. 164 for the first figure.
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Details
An equestrian figure of Marshal Saint-Arnaud
wearing military uniform, modelled seated in the saddle to the left, holding a plumed hat in his right hand, on titled shaped mound base (minor cracks and rubbing to gilding) -- 26.5cm. high; a figure of a man, probably Naploeon, modelled seated on rocks, a telescope in his right hand (damages and restoration) -- 25.5cm. high
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wearing military uniform, modelled seated in the saddle to the left, holding a plumed hat in his right hand, on titled shaped mound base (minor cracks and rubbing to gilding) -- 26.5cm. high; a figure of a man, probably Naploeon, modelled seated on rocks, a telescope in his right hand (damages and restoration) -- 25.5cm. high
See illustration (2)
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