A GROUP OF EIGHT FIGURES

NAPLES, MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER

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A GROUP OF EIGHT FIGURES
Naples, Mid-18th Century and Later
Comprising one shepherd with bagpipes, another holding a bound lamb, a third a side of prosciuto, and a fourth shepherd, two young villagers, a Moor and an Oriental, on later wood bases, two woven baskets of vegetables
7½in. (19cm.) to 11in. (28cm.) high

Lot Essay

The smaller shepherd boy relates to another figure sold Anonymously, Sotheby's London, 15 December 1999, part lot 162. Also see two figures sold Semenzato, Rome, 1 December 1999, lot 166-167. Together, these figures show the influence of Lorenzo Mosca when compared with the figure of a shepherd boy illustrated in F. Mancini, Ibid, 1983, fig. 37.

Additionally, the bald shepherd relates quite closely in modelling and facial type to the figure of an old man by a pupil of Giuseppe Sanmartino, Giuseppe Gori (active late 18th - early 19th Century), illustrated in F. Mancini, Ibid, 1983, fig. 30.

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