Sale 9350
London, South Kensington
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28 March 2002
Price realised
GBP 352
Estimate
A pair of figures of Carlotta Grisi as 'Esmeralda' and Jules Perrot as 'Gringoire' he wearing coat, jacket, breeches and stockings, modelled standing holding a triangle, she wearing open blouse and skirt, standing holding a tambourine, both with a goat to their side, circa 1844 (light flaking to enamels and rubbing to gilding) -- 26cm. high See illustration (2)
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P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. E380, figs. 62 and 63.
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