Porcelain Derby Shepherd
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Lot Description
- Porcelain: A Derby Figure of a shepherd CIRCA 1760, WILLIAM DUESBURY & CO., PATCH MARKS
- Modelled standing in a green-lined yellow hat, yellow-lined white cape, green-lined puce flowered jacket and flowered breeches, holding an oval basket of fruit and extending his right arm, before a tree-stump, with a dog at his feet, on a three-footed scroll-moulded rectangular base
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high
- Estimate:$1,100
- Price realised:$490
- Sale date:12/02/2009
Provenance
Acquired from Stockspring Antiques, London.
Literature
R. Sharp, Ceramics: Ethics & Scandal, New York, 2002, p. 157.
