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A Bow sweetmeat figure of a female blackamoor
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A Bow sweetmeat figure of a female blackamoor
wearing blue headdress and pale-pink and puce floral dress tied with a blue sash, modelled leaning, her hands raised supporting a pierced circular basket, on shaped rectangular base with four scroll-moulded feet, circa 1760 (small chips and rubbing to gilding) -- 18.5cm. high See illustration
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.
Lot Essay
Cf. Anton Gabszewicz, Made At New Canton, Bow Porcelain from the Collection of the London Borough of Newham (2000), p. 100, no. 88.