A PAIR OF FIGURES OF CHINGUIN INDIANS, she playing the tambourine with her head swathed in a scarf, wearing a jacket, bodice and skirt falling in folds, he with a serpent coiled around his wrist and with a stick in his right hand, wearing a waistcoat, buttoned shirt, pantaloons and with a dagger tucked into his cummerbund, their clothes painted in pale-apricot and ivory enriched with flowered patterns and gilding, standing on rocky circular bases modelled with tree-stumps (his stick restored, her base with crack underneath, very minor wear to gilding), impressed Hadley, purple printed marks, impressed numbers 20, model numbers 1567, date codes for 1892

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A PAIR OF FIGURES OF CHINGUIN INDIANS, she playing the tambourine with her head swathed in a scarf, wearing a jacket, bodice and skirt falling in folds, he with a serpent coiled around his wrist and with a stick in his right hand, wearing a waistcoat, buttoned shirt, pantaloons and with a dagger tucked into his cummerbund, their clothes painted in pale-apricot and ivory enriched with flowered patterns and gilding, standing on rocky circular bases modelled with tree-stumps (his stick restored, her base with crack underneath, very minor wear to gilding), impressed Hadley, purple printed marks, impressed numbers 20, model numbers 1567, date codes for 1892
12½in. (32cm.) and 13½in. (34.4cm.) high (2)

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Cf. Sandon, 1987, p. 8

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