Lot 32
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A Derby figure of a Jewish pedlar
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A Derby figure of a Jewish pedlar

CIRCA 1765, WM. DUESBURY & CO.

Details
A Derby figure of a Jewish pedlar
Circa 1765, Wm. Duesbury & Co.
Modelled as a lady in a ribbonned cap, wearing a short orange-lined turquoise cape about her shoulders, with a flowered pink yellow-lined overdress, flowered skirt and puce buckled shoes, holding an open jewel casket in one hand and a purse in the other, on a flowered pad base (neck, right hand, right edge of cape and overdress restuck, restoration to purse and edge of dress, slight chips to flowers and foliage)
73/8in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
Appeared in these Rooms, 16 March 1981, lot 180.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Cf. Dennis G. Rice, Derby Porcelain, The Golden Years 1750-1770 (1983), p. 128, pl. 82; Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (1957), pl. 98, fig. 276; see also Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures (1990), p. 107, pl. 88, for a smaller version of these figures, as the present example.

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