Lot Essay
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
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