PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF NEIL AND SHARON PHILLIPS (LOTS 20-50)

DERBY (WILLIAM DUESBURY & CO.) COMPANION FIGURES OF A 'NEGRESS' AND AN 'ABYSSINIAN ARCHER'

CIRCA 1765, PATCH MARKS

細節

DERBY (WILLIAM DUESBURY & CO.) COMPANION FIGURES OF A 'NEGRESS' AND AN 'ABYSSINIAN ARCHER'
Circa 1765, patch marks
She wearing a feather headdress, a pale-yellow lined flowered drape around her hips and extending over her shoulders into a cape to cover her breasts, he adapted from a Meissen model, wearing a turban and flowered robe, a dagger tucked into its sash at his right hip, each on a rocaille-moulded base enriched in gilt and turquoise and applied with small flowers, hers pierced
11 5/8in. (30cm.) high (2)

來源

with The Antique Porcelain Co., Ltd., London.

拍品專文

See John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, London, 1980, pp. 72-73, fig. 54 for a pair of this model in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; also Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848, London, 1990, pp. 108-109, fig. E37. The figure of the 'Abyssinian Archer' should hold arrows in his right hand; his companion an apple in her right. See anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 21 January 1999, lot 422 for another example of the 'Negress'.