A PAIR OF DERBY (WILLIAM DUESBURY & CO.) FIGURES OF A JEWISH PEDDLER AND COMPANION

CIRCA 1765.

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A PAIR OF DERBY (WILLIAM DUESBURY & CO.) FIGURES OF A JEWISH PEDDLER AND COMPANION
Circa 1765.
He wearing a fur-trimmed iron-red hat and green coat, a puce waistcoat, striped trousers and iron-red buckled shoes, standing before a tree stump, selling from the rectangular basket before him; she wearing a puce cloak, a yellow-lined green dress, puce-flowered iron-red under-skirt and yellow buckled shoes, selling trinkets from the open box before her, both standing on circular bases applied with flowers.
8.3/8in. (22cm.) high (2)

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Cf. John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, London, 1980, fig. 44 for a slightly larger pair from the Schreiber Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum. Another pair is in the collection of the Jewish Museum, London.

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