Sale 6749
London
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11 - 12 June 2003
Price realised
GBP 598
Estimate
A Buen Retiro small white biscuit figure of a Malabar Circa 1780 Wearing a pointed straw hat, a robe tied at the waist and pointed shoes, his right hand holding a lozenge-shaped instrument with bells, standing by a tree-stump on a circular mound base (left hand restored, minute chipping to hat) 5 in. (12.9 cm.) high
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