Lot Essay
C.f. English Earthenware Figures by Pat Halfpenny, pl.60, p.224 for a similar group, although this example has lost the central flowering tree.
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A pearlware group of musicians
modelled as two couples seated to either side of a bridge, the gentlemen playing wind instruments, one lady playing a lute and the other a triangle, in typical dress, with dogs at their feet, streams flowing from the rocky-mound bases beneath them with swans seated by the streams, all set on a rectangular marbleised base and enriched in overglaze enamels -- 8.in. (20.1cm.) wide, circa 1820
modelled as two couples seated to either side of a bridge, the gentlemen playing wind instruments, one lady playing a lute and the other a triangle, in typical dress, with dogs at their feet, streams flowing from the rocky-mound bases beneath them with swans seated by the streams, all set on a rectangular marbleised base and enriched in overglaze enamels -- 8.in. (20.1cm.) wide, circa 1820