A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A JEWISH PEDLAR AND COMPANION, he with a basket of bottles and flasks and wearing fur-edged iron-red cap and fur-lined green coat, his companion with a box of trinkets and wearing a mob-cap, iron-red-lined green cape, yellow-lined puce dress and flowered underskirt, standing before tree-stumps applied with flowers, on circular mound bases (her right hand, left arm, cover of trinket-box and his left hand lacking, minor chipping to extremities), Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1760 | Christie's

Lot 68

A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A JEWISH PEDLAR AND COMPANION, he with a basket of bottles and flasks and wearing fur-edged iron-red cap and fur-lined green coat, his companion with a box of trinkets and wearing a mob-cap, iron-red-lined green cape, yellow-lined puce dress and flowered underskirt, standing before tree-stumps applied with flowers, on circular mound bases (her right hand, left arm, cover of trinket-box and his left hand lacking, minor chipping to extremities), Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1760

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A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A JEWISH PEDLAR AND COMPANION, he with a basket of bottles and flasks and wearing fur-edged iron-red cap and fur-lined green coat, his companion with a box of trinkets and wearing a mob-cap, iron-red-lined green cape, yellow-lined puce dress and flowered underskirt, standing before tree-stumps applied with flowers, on circular mound bases (her right hand, left arm, cover of trinket-box and his left hand lacking, minor chipping to extremities), Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1760
about 19.5cm. high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Dennis G. Rice, op. cit., p. 128, pl. 28, Peter Bradshaw, op. cit., P. 107, pl. 88 and Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit., pl. 98, fig. 276

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