Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. G474, figs. 25 and 26.
Details
A pair of equestrian figures of Tom King and Dick Turpin on Black Bess
each wearing hats, capes and cobalt-blue jackets, modelled seated in the sadle turned to the left and right, holding pistols, on shaped oval gilt-line bases, 19th century (some damages and restoration) -- 23cm. high
See illustration (2)
each wearing hats, capes and cobalt-blue jackets, modelled seated in the sadle turned to the left and right, holding pistols, on shaped oval gilt-line bases, 19th century (some damages and restoration) -- 23cm. high
See illustration (2)
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