Lot 287
287
A DERBY WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF PUTTI AS HUNTSMEN
THE PROPERTY OF CANADIAN COLLECTORS (LOTS 287-288)
A DERBY WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF PUTTI AS HUNTSMEN

CIRCA 1775, INCISED NO. 251 AND REPAIRER'S X MARK

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A DERBY WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF PUTTI AS HUNTSMEN
CIRCA 1775, INCISED NO. 251 AND REPAIRER'S X MARK
Modeled in the round with four putti standing before a tree, each holding different attributes of hunting and attended by two hounds, on a rocky mound base
9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) high
Provenance
The China Shop, Montreal, 7 October 1987.
Anonymous sale; Waddington's, Toronto, 24 November 1986.

Lot Essay

See Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures, London, 1990, p. 325, pl. 268 for another example of this model in the Derby Museums and Art Gallery. Bradshaw has posited that this group is possibly based on a Tournai prototype, see p. 159.

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