Sale 9807
London, South Kensington
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18 March 2004
Price realised
GBP 299
Estimate
A pair of Sitzendorf figures of a gentleman and companion CIRCA 1880, BLUE MARK, IMPRESSED AND PAINTED NUMERALS He is modelled seated on tree-stump applied with flowering bocage, wearing a black plumed, wide-brimmed hat, pink-scale-print jacket painted with flowers and matching trousers applied with yellow ribbons, holding a bunch of flowers, with a faithful dog at his feet, on a turquoise and green scroll-moulded base; she is modelled seated on a similar stump, wearing a turquoise bodice applied with pink ribbons, and a full-skirt painted with sprays of iron-red flowers, balancing a yellow, plummed, wide-brimmed hat on her knee, with a sheep at her feet He 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high (2)
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