Lot Essay
See John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, London, 1980, fig. 87 for a variant example of the piper. These Derby figures are based on a Meissen model by Johann Joachim Kändler.
Property from the Collection of
MR. AND MRS. LANSDELL CHRISTIE
A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A SHEPHERD AND HIS COMPANION, CIRCA 1765, he wearing a pink hat and puce-lined yellow coat and playing a recorder, she wearing a yellow cap and flowered skirt, holding flowers, a lamb at her feet, both on rocaille-moulded bases enriched in turquoise--7in. high (2)
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A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A SHEPHERD AND HIS COMPANION, CIRCA 1765, he wearing a pink hat and puce-lined yellow coat and playing a recorder, she wearing a yellow cap and flowered skirt, holding flowers, a lamb at her feet, both on rocaille-moulded bases enriched in turquoise--7in. high (2)