A PAIR OF LONGTON HALL PORCELAIN MODELS OF BUNTINGS AND A PAIR OF DERBY MODELS OF TITMICE

CIRCA 1755-65, THE TITMICE WITH FAINT PATCH MARKS

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A PAIR OF LONGTON HALL PORCELAIN MODELS OF BUNTINGS AND A PAIR OF DERBY MODELS OF TITMICE
CIRCA 1755-65, THE TITMICE WITH FAINT PATCH MARKS
4 5/8 in. (12 cm.) high, the titmice

Provenance

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1948.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, MA, 1957, pl. 110 (the buntings illustrated, figs. 281, 285.
F. Stoner, Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures, Newport, 1955, (pl. 60 the titmice).

Lot Essay

For a similar model of the bunting see D. Pierce, English Ceramics: The Frances and Emory Cocke Collection, Atlanta, 1988, p. 143.

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