AN ENGLISH PAINTED LEAD MODEL OF A GAME KEEPER

FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

Details

AN ENGLISH PAINTED LEAD MODEL OF A GAME KEEPER
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
Of life-size proportions, dressed in a black cap and green overcoat, firing a musket, the painted decoration refreshed, on a later stone base
69 in. (175.4 cm.) high overall

Provenance

The Barratt Collection - From Crowe Hall, Bath, Christie's, London, 16 December 2010, lot 386.

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Lot Essay

The present figure appears to be known in at least one other version at Biel House, Haddingtonshire which is illustrated in L. Weaver, English Leadwork: Its Art and History, London, 1909, fig. 291.
Another related figure depicted with his hound is at Swaffham, Norfolk.

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