Sale 6432
London
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9 July 2001
Price realised
GBP 2,938
Estimate
Two Bow figures emblematic of Summer and Autumn Circa 1755 Summer, as a girl seated on a sheaf of corn, in pink hat, blue bodice and flowered skirt edged in gilding, and Autumn as a young man in black hat, his jacket finely painted with vine, white shirt and apron, and iron-red breeches, seated on an upturned yellow basket of grapes and holding a bunch of grapes and a bowl, both on circular mound bases (she with chipping to corn, he with slight chipping to foliage) About 5 in. (13 cm.) high (2)
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