A MINTON MAJOLICA GROUP OF A YOUNG MAN PUSHING A WHEEL-BARROW, modelled by J. B. Klagmann, wearing a rustic brown hat, a dark-blue tunic edged in yellow and with a blue shirt and breeches, the barrow glazed in turquoise on the interior and entwined with fruiting branches, on a grey shaped rectangular base strewn with bulrushes (restoration to handles of wheel-barrow and to one leaf, some minute glaze chips), impressed marks and model number 413, date code for 1873

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A MINTON MAJOLICA GROUP OF A YOUNG MAN PUSHING A WHEEL-BARROW, modelled by J. B. Klagmann, wearing a rustic brown hat, a dark-blue tunic edged in yellow and with a blue shirt and breeches, the barrow glazed in turquoise on the interior and entwined with fruiting branches, on a grey shaped rectangular base strewn with bulrushes (restoration to handles of wheel-barrow and to one leaf, some minute glaze chips), impressed marks and model number 413, date code for 1873
12½in. (32cm.) high

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Jean-Baptiste-Jules Klagmann (1810-1867) was employed at the Sèvres factory before moving to England where he worked at Minton from 1850 to the early years of the 1860's. Cf. Joan Jones op. cit., p. 157 and also Victoria and Albert Museum and Thomas Goode & Company Limited Exhibition Catalogue, Minton 1798-1910, London 1976, p. 46, pl. 31, Cat. F16 for further examples of this model

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