THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A DERBY CENTRE-PIECE
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A DERBY CENTRE-PIECE
Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1765
Modelled as a lady and two male companions wearing patterned green and pink clothes and seated holding shell-moulded baskets, the interiors painted with butterflies and insects, supported on a scroll and foliage-moulded base enriched in gilding (damage to her wrists and shell, one man's left hand lacking and with damages to fingers of other hands, damages to plumes and minor chipping to extremities)
9 1/4in. (23.5cm.) high
Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1765
Modelled as a lady and two male companions wearing patterned green and pink clothes and seated holding shell-moulded baskets, the interiors painted with butterflies and insects, supported on a scroll and foliage-moulded base enriched in gilding (damage to her wrists and shell, one man's left hand lacking and with damages to fingers of other hands, damages to plumes and minor chipping to extremities)
9 1/4in. (23.5cm.) high