A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A SPORTSMAN AND COMPANION holding guns and with satchels slung from their shoulders, he with a hound at his feet and she with a falcon perched on her left hand, their white clothes lined in turquoise, pink and yellow and enriched in gilding, standing before tree-stumps on rockwork bases applied with flowers (minor chips to foliage), she with incised 50, Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1770
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A PAIR OF DERBY FIGURES OF A SPORTSMAN AND COMPANION holding guns and with satchels slung from their shoulders, he with a hound at his feet and she with a falcon perched on her left hand, their white clothes lined in turquoise, pink and yellow and enriched in gilding, standing before tree-stumps on rockwork bases applied with flowers (minor chips to foliage), she with incised 50, Wm. Duesbury & Co., circa 1770
about 16cm. high
Lot Essay
Cf. Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848, p. 207, pls. 160 and 161