A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A FRUIT-SELLER modelled by Joseph Willems as a woman in white cap and shawl, pink bodice, white skirt and green underskirt, seated leaning on a circular basket filled with fruit and with her left arm outstretched, before a tree-stump with a pendant pear, the shaped rockwork base applied with flowers (upper part of tree-stump, fingers to left hand and part of rim to basket lacking, hairline cracks to her body at back and extended firing-crack at front, damage to corner of base and chips to foliage), red anchor mark, circa 1756

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A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A FRUIT-SELLER modelled by Joseph Willems as a woman in white cap and shawl, pink bodice, white skirt and green underskirt, seated leaning on a circular basket filled with fruit and with her left arm outstretched, before a tree-stump with a pendant pear, the shaped rockwork base applied with flowers (upper part of tree-stump, fingers to left hand and part of rim to basket lacking, hairline cracks to her body at back and extended firing-crack at front, damage to corner of base and chips to foliage), red anchor mark, circa 1756
22cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Arthur Lane, English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century, pl.15, Frank Stonor, op. cit., pl. 20 and the pair of fruit-sellers sold in these Rooms on 20 May 1991, lot 200

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