Lot 42
A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE FIGURE OF A CLOWN OF RALPH WOOD TYPE, the youth standing before a tree-stump gazing upwards and with his hands tucked into his shirt, with ochre hair and wearing black hat, green jacket and grey breeches, on a rockwork base (three chips to base), circa 1785 19cm. high
Price Realised
GBP 715
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Specialist note
After the model by Paul Louis Cyfflé at Lunéville, see Herbert Read, Staffordshire Pottery Figures, pl. 33; also cf. Captain R. K. Price, Astbury, Whieldon, and Ralph Wood Figures and Toby jugs, pl. XXXIV, no. 35