A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER FIGURES OF CHILDREN, the girl skipping and wearing a pink short tunic and yellow skirt, her hair uplifted by the breeze, the boy aiming to strike a striped football, wearing a yellow-lined blue short kacket and a pink tunic, on roughly moulded treestump bases painted in colours and edged with gilt bands (damage to her right index finger and chips to base, restoration to his right arm, side and leg, wear to gilding, ball restuck), impressed marks, circa 1870 | Christie's

Lot 202

202

A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER FIGURES OF CHILDREN, the girl skipping and wearing a pink short tunic and yellow skirt, her hair uplifted by the breeze, the boy aiming to strike a striped football, wearing a yellow-lined blue short kacket and a pink tunic, on roughly moulded treestump bases painted in colours and edged with gilt bands (damage to her right index finger and chips to base, restoration to his right arm, side and leg, wear to gilding, ball restuck), impressed marks, circa 1870

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A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER FIGURES OF CHILDREN, the girl skipping and wearing a pink short tunic and yellow skirt, her hair uplifted by the breeze, the boy aiming to strike a striped football, wearing a yellow-lined blue short kacket and a pink tunic, on roughly moulded treestump bases painted in colours and edged with gilt bands (damage to her right index finger and chips to base, restoration to his right arm, side and leg, wear to gilding, ball restuck), impressed marks, circa 1870
12½in. (32cm.) and (30.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Paul Atterbury, ed., The Parian Phenomenon, p. 223, fig. 720, for a page reproduced from the pattern book, model no. 102

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