A PAIR OF FIGURES OF A NEGRO AND NEGRESS WITH WATER-POTS modelled by James Hadley, both wearing fringed tunics, he wearing a cap and holding a stick of bamboo, she wearing a folded head-scarf and fringed necklace, each with a large urn supported on a brick column at their side, on rocky circular bases, painted in shaded ivory and apricot enriched in gilding (restoration to his robe, bamcoo and column, crack to his left leg, slight wear to gilding), impressed Hadley, impressed and purple and iron-red printed marks, impressed numbers 594 and 1127, model numbers 1126 and 1127, date codes for 1887 and 1888

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A PAIR OF FIGURES OF A NEGRO AND NEGRESS WITH WATER-POTS modelled by James Hadley, both wearing fringed tunics, he wearing a cap and holding a stick of bamboo, she wearing a folded head-scarf and fringed necklace, each with a large urn supported on a brick column at their side, on rocky circular bases, painted in shaded ivory and apricot enriched in gilding (restoration to his robe, bamcoo and column, crack to his left leg, slight wear to gilding), impressed Hadley, impressed and purple and iron-red printed marks, impressed numbers 594 and 1127, model numbers 1126 and 1127, date codes for 1887 and 1888
17½in. (44.5cm.) and 17¾in. (45cm.) high (2)

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Cf. Sandon, 1973, colour pl. VI

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