A Continental faience group of a gardener and two companions

CIRCA 1775

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A Continental faience group of a gardener and two companions
Circa 1775
Wearing white clothes, he in a flowered jacket and holding a flower-pot with a rake at his side, his lady companions wearing blue and iron-red bodices, one standing with an apron of flowers, the other seated at his feet, on a stepped rockwork mound base (restoration to seated woman's left arm and to rockwork directly behind her, chipping to flowers and restoration to rake handle)
6 in. (16 cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a similar dish painted with Bacchus see Winterthurer Keramik exhibition catalogue (Winterthur, 1989) p. 60, no. 78, and p. 52, no. 64 for a dish with very similar quality of painting.

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