A BOW FIGURE OF KITTY CLIVE in the role of 'The Fine Lady' from Garrick's farce 'Lethe', standing holding a spaniel beneath her right arm and the edge of her crinoline skirt in her left hand, wearing a lace cap, a white ruff tied with a puce bow round her neck and laced bodice, her yellow jacket edged with applied puce ruffles and her white skirt painted with flower-sprays, on a shaped square marbled base (hat and left hand restored and minor chipping to edges of sleeves), circa 1750

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A BOW FIGURE OF KITTY CLIVE in the role of 'The Fine Lady' from Garrick's farce 'Lethe', standing holding a spaniel beneath her right arm and the edge of her crinoline skirt in her left hand, wearing a lace cap, a white ruff tied with a puce bow round her neck and laced bodice, her yellow jacket edged with applied puce ruffles and her white skirt painted with flower-sprays, on a shaped square marbled base (hat and left hand restored and minor chipping to edges of sleeves), circa 1750
25.5cm. high

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The model is taken from an engraving by Charles Mosley published in 1750, based on a drawing by Worlidge

Examples in white porcelain of both Kitty Clive and the companion figure of Henry Woodward dated 1750 are recorded, Kitty Clive in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and Henry Woodward in the Untermyer Collection, New York. For another coloured example see Elizabeth Adams & David Redstone, op. cit., col. pl. H and for an example in the white see Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, op. cit., p. 122, no. 186. Cf. the white pair from the collection of Mrs. E.S. Borthwick-Norton, Southwick House, Christie's sale on the premises, 1 October, 1988, lot 397 and another pair from the Rous Lench Collection sold in these Rooms on 30 May 1990, lot 385

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