拍品專文
Cf. P.D.Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures (New York, 1971), p. C272, pl. 41, for similar Napier and Dundas figures.
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MID 19TH CENTURY
細節
Four various Staffordshire groups
MID 19TH CENTURY
The first modelled as Sir Charles Napier and Admiral Dundas, Napier stands wearing a blue jacket, white sash and white trousers, a sword hanging from his belt, standing before a pink draped support and a cannon proped up by a pile of cannon balls, Dundas similarly modelled standing before an iron-red and blue flag, grasping a cannon with his left hand, both on shaped-oval titled bases with gilt-lines (very minor chipping to extremities and rubbing to gilding); a figure group of a gentleman and companion, both modelled standing, he wears a white long jacket and striped waistcoat, white breeches and black and orange boots, she wears a white bodice and skirt enriched in blue flowers and pink lines, she holds a lute and a flowered crown, on an oval gilt-lined base; the fourth figure modelled as the Duke of Cambridge on horseback looking to his left, wearing military regalia and holding his plumed hat in his right hand, enriched in gilt, orange, pink and green on a gilt titled mound base
Napier stands 15¾ in. (40 cm.) high (4)
MID 19TH CENTURY
The first modelled as Sir Charles Napier and Admiral Dundas, Napier stands wearing a blue jacket, white sash and white trousers, a sword hanging from his belt, standing before a pink draped support and a cannon proped up by a pile of cannon balls, Dundas similarly modelled standing before an iron-red and blue flag, grasping a cannon with his left hand, both on shaped-oval titled bases with gilt-lines (very minor chipping to extremities and rubbing to gilding); a figure group of a gentleman and companion, both modelled standing, he wears a white long jacket and striped waistcoat, white breeches and black and orange boots, she wears a white bodice and skirt enriched in blue flowers and pink lines, she holds a lute and a flowered crown, on an oval gilt-lined base; the fourth figure modelled as the Duke of Cambridge on horseback looking to his left, wearing military regalia and holding his plumed hat in his right hand, enriched in gilt, orange, pink and green on a gilt titled mound base
Napier stands 15¾ in. (40 cm.) high (4)
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