A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A SHEPHERD, the youth playing the clarinet and with a satchel slung from his shoulders, wearing mauve hat and jacket, his turquoise and iron-red breeches reserved with puce and gilt medallions, leaning against a flower-encrusted tree-stump with a recumbent dog at his feet, the circular base applied with flowers (lower part of clarinet, hat, both hands and one ear of dog restored, chips to flowers and foliage), red anchor mark, circa 1758
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A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A SHEPHERD, the youth playing the clarinet and with a satchel slung from his shoulders, wearing mauve hat and jacket, his turquoise and iron-red breeches reserved with puce and gilt medallions, leaning against a flower-encrusted tree-stump with a recumbent dog at his feet, the circular base applied with flowers (lower part of clarinet, hat, both hands and one ear of dog restored, chips to flowers and foliage), red anchor mark, circa 1758
18cm. high
Lot Essay
Cf. Frank Stoner, Chelsea, Bow and Derby Figures, pl. 17