Lot 90
90
A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A NIGHT-WATCHMAN'S COMPANION
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A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A NIGHT-WATCHMAN'S COMPANION

CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARK

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A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A NIGHT-WATCHMAN'S COMPANION
CIRCA 1760, GOLD ANCHOR MARK
Modelled after the Meissen original from the Cris de Paris series, the lady standing by a tree-stump, holding a lantern in her left hand and a basket of fruit over her right arm, in a turquoise hat over a black flowing headdress, a flowered apron and a pink bodice and skirt, the base applied with flowers and leaves and moulded with gilt rococo scrolls, (restoration to hat, neck, headdress and left foot)
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

See the footnote to lot 89, the companion figure to the present lot

For an illustration of both the night-watchman and his companion (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1957, pl. 21, fig. 44.

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