Lot Essay
This figure, also recorded in Chelsea, is taken from Bouchardon's 'Cris de Paris', see Frank Hurlbutt, Bow Porcelain, pl. 35A. For similar examples together with its companion figure see Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, op. cit., no. 213, Arthur Lane, 18th Century English Porcelain Figures, pl. 50A, Bernard Rackham, Schreiber Collection Catalogue, pl. 6, fig. 20, E.C.C. Exhibition Catalogue, 1948, nos. 169 and 170, Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit., pl. 81, fig. 244 and ELizabeth Adams & David Redstone, Bow Porcelain, p. 93, pl. 16. The pair of Cooks are mentioned in the 1756 Memorandum Book of John Bowcock where sixteen were ordered from him by a dealer named Fogg