A PAIR RALPH WOOD FIGURES OF SPANISH MUSICIANS, he standing before a tree-stump playing the castinets, wearing dark-brown hat, blue waistcoat, brown jerkin with pale-yellow sleeves and green tattered breeches, she standing playing the drum, in dark-brown conical hat and wearing a blue shawl, pale-yellow bodice, brown skirt and white apron, on rockwork mounds above square bases (he with right arm repaired, broken through legs and tree-stump and repaired, she with restoration to nose, neck, left arm and hand, repair to right wrist and base of drum-stick, broken from base and restuck, both with slight chips to edge of bases), circa 1790
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A PAIR RALPH WOOD FIGURES OF SPANISH MUSICIANS, he standing before a tree-stump playing the castinets, wearing dark-brown hat, blue waistcoat, brown jerkin with pale-yellow sleeves and green tattered breeches, she standing playing the drum, in dark-brown conical hat and wearing a blue shawl, pale-yellow bodice, brown skirt and white apron, on rockwork mounds above square bases (he with right arm repaired, broken through legs and tree-stump and repaired, she with restoration to nose, neck, left arm and hand, repair to right wrist and base of drum-stick, broken from base and restuck, both with slight chips to edge of bases), circa 1790
22cm. high (2)
Provenance
George Stoner Collection, no. 188
Frank Partridge Collection
Literature
Frank Falkner, op. cit., pl. X, nos. 41 and 42
Frank Partridge Ltd., op. cit., col. pl. opp. p. 42, no. 77
Lot Essay
Cf. Pat Halfpenny, op. cit., p. 84 for the pair in the Glaisher Collection, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge