A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS, he with a satchel over his shoulder, wearing black hat, pink jacket, iron-red and gilt waistcoat and blue, iron-red and gilt-scale breeches, a dog seated erect at his feet, his companion garlanding an enormous sheep, wearing yellow hat, turquoise bodice and pink flowered skirt, standing before flowering tree-stumps, on scroll-moulded bases enriched in turquoise, green, puce and with gilding (he with left hand restored and a section of foliage lacking, she with right arm restored at shoulder and rubbing to enamels, both hats restored and with chips to extremities), Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1770
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A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS, he with a satchel over his shoulder, wearing black hat, pink jacket, iron-red and gilt waistcoat and blue, iron-red and gilt-scale breeches, a dog seated erect at his feet, his companion garlanding an enormous sheep, wearing yellow hat, turquoise bodice and pink flowered skirt, standing before flowering tree-stumps, on scroll-moulded bases enriched in turquoise, green, puce and with gilding (he with left hand restored and a section of foliage lacking, she with right arm restored at shoulder and rubbing to enamels, both hats restored and with chips to extremities), Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1770
19cm. high (2)
Lot Essay
Cf. Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848, p. 213, no. 166 and the pair sold in these Rooms on 11 February 1991, lot 96