A RALPH WOOD FIGURE OF AN OLD WOMAN FEEDING BIRDS, seated with her head turned towards her raised left hand and holding a spindle of wool in her right hand, wearing a pale-brown dress and with a white shawl over her head, three birds feeding from a circular green bowl at her feet, the shaped rockwork base enriched in green, ochre and brown (left fore-finger chipped, tail feathers of one bird lacking, fire-crack to rim of base and to shawl across her head), impressed 7o, circa 1780 | Christie's

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A RALPH WOOD FIGURE OF AN OLD WOMAN FEEDING BIRDS, seated with her head turned towards her raised left hand and holding a spindle of wool in her right hand, wearing a pale-brown dress and with a white shawl over her head, three birds feeding from a circular green bowl at her feet, the shaped rockwork base enriched in green, ochre and brown (left fore-finger chipped, tail feathers of one bird lacking, fire-crack to rim of base and to shawl across her head), impressed 7o, circa 1780

細節

A RALPH WOOD FIGURE OF AN OLD WOMAN FEEDING BIRDS, seated with her head turned towards her raised left hand and holding a spindle of wool in her right hand, wearing a pale-brown dress and with a white shawl over her head, three birds feeding from a circular green bowl at her feet, the shaped rockwork base enriched in green, ochre and brown (left fore-finger chipped, tail feathers of one bird lacking, fire-crack to rim of base and to shawl across her head), impressed 7^o, circa 1780
20cm. high

拍品專文

Cf. Captain R.K. Price, Astbury Whieldon and Ralph Wood Figures & Toby Jugs, pl. XXVII, no. 3 and the example from the A.C.J. Wall Collection sold in these Rooms on 18 October 1976, lot 108