Sale 8668
New York, Park Avenue
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21 May 1997
Price realised
USD 2,760
Estimate
TWO BOW FIGURES OF HUNTERS Circa 1760 She wearing purple jacket and flowered skirt and holding a pistol and a dead game bird, a hound begging at her right; he wearing puce jacket and flowered waistcoat, a rifle at his left, a seated hound at his right, on rocaille-moulded bases applied with flowers 5½in. (13.9cm.) high (2)
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