A PAIR OF 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' WHITE FIGURES OF A DANCING GIRL AND A YOUTH PLAYING THE HURDY-GURDY, standing before tree-stumps, she in a dancing pose holding out the corners of her apron, her tight bodice with a bow at the front and her skirt with a fringed hem, her companion playing the hurdy-gurdy, his hair en queue and with feathers in his tasselled cap, on rectangular pad bases (she repaired through waist and through corners of apron), circa 1750

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A PAIR OF 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' WHITE FIGURES OF A DANCING GIRL AND A YOUTH PLAYING THE HURDY-GURDY, standing before tree-stumps, she in a dancing pose holding out the corners of her apron, her tight bodice with a bow at the front and her skirt with a fringed hem, her companion playing the hurdy-gurdy, his hair en queue and with feathers in his tasselled cap, on rectangular pad bases (she repaired through waist and through corners of apron), circa 1750
15cm. high (2)

Literature

Margaret Legge, op. cit., p. 84, no. 194

Exhibited

Winifred Williams, Exhibition of Eighteenth Century European White Porcelain, June 1975, no. 28
Flowers and Fables, no. 194

Lot Essay

The only other white pair are those in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the gift of Lt. Col. K. Dingwall (c.328-1919 and c.689-1920) illustrated by William King, Chelsea Porcelain, Pl. 11, Fig. 2. For a coloured example of the Dancing Girl see Elizabeth Adams, op. cit., p. 45, pl. 31

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