CIRCA 1790 & 1820, INCISED NO. 227 & 27
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TWO DERBY FIGURES OF MANSION HOUSE DWARFS
CIRCA 1790 & 1820, INCISED NO. 227 & 27
Modelled after engravings by Callot, the first moustached figure with a pot-belly, wearing a tall conical hat painted with an advertisement (slight chipping, hairline crack to hat); the second wearing a blue wide-brimmed hat, harlequin waistcoat (restored to brim of hat and through legs)
The first 7 1/8 in. (18.2 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1790 & 1820, INCISED NO. 227 & 27
Modelled after engravings by Callot, the first moustached figure with a pot-belly, wearing a tall conical hat painted with an advertisement (slight chipping, hairline crack to hat); the second wearing a blue wide-brimmed hat, harlequin waistcoat (restored to brim of hat and through legs)
The first 7 1/8 in. (18.2 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Sir Harold Mitchell, Bt., Chateau de Bourdigny, Geneva; thence by descent.
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