A pair of Minton 'Hogarth Match Boy and Girl' figures

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A pair of Minton 'Hogarth Match Boy and Girl' figures
modelled facing left and right, wearing eighteenth century dress, seated on tree stumps, their arms supporting oval baskets which rest on their knees, the girl with impressed shape 294, impressed marks, year cyphers for 1864 and 1867 (boy with a restored replacement section to the basket, some chips and other minor restorations) -- 20cm. and 19cm. high
See colour plate 1 (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Nicholas Dawes, Majolica (1990), p.73.
Cf. Marilyn G. Karmason & Joan B. Stacke, Majolica A Complete History and Illustrated Survey (1989), p.60.

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