CIRCA 1755

细节

A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A CARPENTER
CIRCA 1755
Modelled standing with one foot forward, holding an axe over one shoulder supporting a sack of tools and a saw, a small cloth bag in his right hand and a hammer tucked into the apron around his waist, in a black hat, yellow scarf, a white waistcoat with gilt buttons, white coat and pale yellow breeches, the mound base applied with flowers and leaves (blade of axe chipped, right hand restored through wrist, hammer lacking at waist, hairline crack to tree-stump and left ankle)
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high

来源

With D.M. & P. Manheim, London (according to paper label attached to the base).
With Errol Manners, London.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Matilda Burn

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拍品专文

See William King, English Porcelain figures of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1925, fig. 27 for a similar example and Reginald Blunt (ed.), The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery, London, 1924, pl. 6, no. 174 for the example from the McEuan Collection.