A PAIR OF OVAL WALL POCKETS for hair tidies, modelled as naked boys nailing mesh to walls moulded in relief with flowering prunus, with baskets at their feet, glazed in ivory with painted fleshtones and the moulded details enriched in gilding (one with small crack at rim and restoration to boy's left foot), pierced for suspension, impressed and purple printed marks, model numbers 662, date codes for 1878 and 1881
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A PAIR OF OVAL WALL POCKETS for hair tidies, modelled as naked boys nailing mesh to walls moulded in relief with flowering prunus, with baskets at their feet, glazed in ivory with painted fleshtones and the moulded details enriched in gilding (one with small crack at rim and restoration to boy's left foot), pierced for suspension, impressed and purple printed marks, model numbers 662, date codes for 1878 and 1881
8./34in. (22cm.) and 9in. (22.5cm.) high (2)
Lot Essay
Cf. Sandon, 1973, pl. 38 for a slightly different pair