Lot 36
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A Longton Hall group of two dancers
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A Longton Hall group of two dancers

CIRCA 1758-60

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A Longton Hall group of two dancers
Circa 1758-60
He with black tricorn hat, puce-edged ruff, yellow-lined puce cape, yellow jacket with slashed brown sleeves, pink waistcoat, puce breeches and black shoes with yellow rosettes, his companion with her hair in a chignon, with pink-edged ruff, gilt-trimmed and buttoned green bodice with yellow border and slashed pink sleeves, flowered apron, pink flowered skirt and yellow shoes with brown ribbons, both standing before a tree-stump on a four-footed green and puce pierced scroll base (restoration to hands, some fingers lacking, other minor chips)
10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Cf. Arthur Lane, English Porcelain Figures of the 18th Century (1961), pl. 82 and Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain (1957), pl. 73 for the example from the collection of the late Lord Fisher in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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