AFTER A MODEL BY JOHN CHEERE, 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL LEAD FIGURES OF PEASANT DANCERS
AFTER A MODEL BY JOHN CHEERE, 20TH CENTURY
One formed as a man with cape, the other a woman in dress
the larger 45 in. (114 cm.) high, 48 in. (122 cm.) wide (2)

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Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Lot Essay

Related figures of a shepherd and shepherdess were supplied by the sculptor Edward Hurst for Charlecote Park, Warwickshire in 1718 (illustrated in J.P.S. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 59, plate 1:25). Similar rustic figures of a hoe-bearing shepherd and his fruit-gathering companion were also executed in the mid-18th century by the Hyde Park sculptor John Cheere (d.1787). A pair of these figures, acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1896 is now at Kew Gardens, London. Another painted pair were formerly at Tyningham, Scotland; a fourth pair was in the possession of Mallett at Bourdon House (see G. Jekyll, Garden Ornament, Woodbridge, 1994, p. 123 and J.P.S. Davis, ibid, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 65, color plate 18).

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