Lot 40
40
A pair of Longton Hall horses and grooms
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A pair of Longton Hall horses and grooms

CIRCA 1755

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A pair of Longton Hall horses and grooms
Circa 1755
After the Meissen models by J.J. Kändler, modelled as two rearing white and pale grey and brown dappled stallions restrained by a black and a white groom in Turkish dress, wearing a pale-blue and white turban, long pink robe wth gilt collar and cuffs, a striped red and gold sash and yellow boots and each with a dagger in his belt, on flower-encrusted pad bases (both with restoration to front legs and restored through bases of tails, some slight restoration along firing cracks to bases)
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high (2)
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Lot Essay

Pairs of these horses are extremely rare. The pair in the Schreiber Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum is illustrated by Bernard Rackham, The Schreiber Collection Catalogue (1915), Vol. 1, pl. 1, fig. 29 and also by Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain (1957) pl.63B-C. Another pair was sold at Sotheby's, 16 October 1956, lot 133.

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