Lot 9
9
A RALPH WOOD GROUP OF THE LOST SHEEP FOUND modelled as a youth standing beside a tree-stump with a sheep slung from a stick across his back, wearing brown hat, olive-green waistcoat, pale-brown coat and grey breeches, on a green and brown rockwork base (minute chip to hat, both ends of stick lacking, slight chipping to base), circa 1785

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A RALPH WOOD GROUP OF THE LOST SHEEP FOUND modelled as a youth standing beside a tree-stump with a sheep slung from a stick across his back, wearing brown hat, olive-green waistcoat, pale-brown coat and grey breeches, on a green and brown rockwork base (minute chip to hat, both ends of stick lacking, slight chipping to base), circa 1785
22cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Sir Harold Mackintosh, Bt., Early English Figure Pottery, no. 32; Frank Falkner, op. cit., pl. XXXVI; Leslie B. Grigsby, English Pottery 1650 - 1800, The Henry Weldon Collection, p. 446, no. 281 and the example from the collection of the late A.C.J. Wall Esq., sold in these Rooms on 18 October 1976, lot 107

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