Lot 15
15
A PAIR OF RALPH WOOD FIGURES OF A HAYMAKER AND COMPANION, he standing leaning on a tree-stump and holding a scythe, wearing black hat, yellow waistcoat, brown jacket and manganese breeches, his companion standing resting a barrel held in her right arm against a tree-stump, wearing green hat, blue-spotted yellow shawl, brown bodice and white apron and skirt, on oval mounds and square bases (his right hand and handle of scythe restored replacements and with restored chip to his nose, both with slight chips to bases), he with impressed R.WOOD mark, circa 1785

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A PAIR OF RALPH WOOD FIGURES OF A HAYMAKER AND COMPANION, he standing leaning on a tree-stump and holding a scythe, wearing black hat, yellow waistcoat, brown jacket and manganese breeches, his companion standing resting a barrel held in her right arm against a tree-stump, wearing green hat, blue-spotted yellow shawl, brown bodice and white apron and skirt, on oval mounds and square bases (his right hand and handle of scythe restored replacements and with restored chip to his nose, both with slight chips to bases), he with impressed R.WOOD mark, circa 1785
20.5cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Frank Falkner, op. cit., pl. IV, no. 15; Captain R.K. Price, op. cit., pl. XXXVI, nos. 54 and 55; Frank Partridge Ltd., op. cit., p. 21, no. 66 and Leslie B. Grigsby, op. cit., p. 437, no. 274; Pat Halfpenny, op. cit., p. 58 for the pair in the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent and also the figure of a Haymaker sold in these Rooms on 12 October 1987, lot 42

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