A PAIR OF MINTON FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION, he holding a posy and his companion a garland of flowers, standing beside marbled vases filled with flowers and fruit and supported on tree-stumps, his applied with flowers, their clothes decorated in bright colours and enriched in gilding, on circular grasswork bases with gilt rims (his right hand restored and she repaired through neck, chips to flowers), he with traces of blue crossed swords mark, circa 1835
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A PAIR OF MINTON FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION, he holding a posy and his companion a garland of flowers, standing beside marbled vases filled with flowers and fruit and supported on tree-stumps, his applied with flowers, their clothes decorated in bright colours and enriched in gilding, on circular grasswork bases with gilt rims (his right hand restored and she repaired through neck, chips to flowers), he with traces of blue crossed swords mark, circa 1835
19.5cm. high (2)
Lot Essay
For the gardener see Geoffrey A. Godden, op. cit., pl. 142