A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A GALLANT AND LADY attired as a shepherd and shepherdess, he with a lamb under his right arm and wearing puce-lined green jacket, pale-yellow waistcoat and iron-red flowered breeches, standing before a tree-stump supporting a basket of flowers and with a hat filled with flowers at its base, his companion with a basket of flowers and fruit and flowers in her pale-yellow apron, wearing puce bodice and her skirt painted with loose bouquets, the scroll-moulded bases enriched in gilt and turquoise (her hat damaged, lamb's back-leg lacking, minor chipping to flowers), Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1760

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A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A GALLANT AND LADY attired as a shepherd and shepherdess, he with a lamb under his right arm and wearing puce-lined green jacket, pale-yellow waistcoat and iron-red flowered breeches, standing before a tree-stump supporting a basket of flowers and with a hat filled with flowers at its base, his companion with a basket of flowers and fruit and flowers in her pale-yellow apron, wearing puce bodice and her skirt painted with loose bouquets, the scroll-moulded bases enriched in gilt and turquoise (her hat damaged, lamb's back-leg lacking, minor chipping to flowers), Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1760
21cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Dennis G. Rice, Derby Porcelain, The Golden Years, 1750-1770, p. 102, pl. 49 and Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848, p. 100, pl. 78

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