A pair of Derby figures of a Gentleman & Companion each holding a basket of grapes. Circa ;1760-62. Provenance: The Peter Bradshaw Collection.
The lady’s yellow skirt is edged in puce & richly decorated with
gilt & flower sprig’s within iron-red cartouche’s & turquoise
“oeil de Perdrix” decoration, meaning the eye of a partridge.
Description
A pair of Derby porcelain figures of grape sellers sat on tree stumps on wide flat bases ,applied flowers and leaves with turquoise and gilded scrolls with both the Gentleman & Companion looking at each other.
The Gentleman is decorated in a puce jacket and turquoise breaches and a pale yellow plumed hat .
The Lady has a pale yellow bonnet turquoise bodice, a yellow skirt edged in puce with gilt & flower sprigs within iron-red cartouches and turquoise “oeil de Perdrix” decoration, meaning the eye of a partridge.
Circa :1760-2.
Provenance: The Peter Bradshaw collection.
A photograph of this pair of Derby figures is on colour page plate V111 (D22) in Derby Porcelain Figures by Peter Bradshaw published by Faber and Faber 1990.
Both the Gentleman and Companion have original Peter Bradshaw collection labels from the Bonhams’ London sale of
“The Peter Bradshaw collection of English porcelain figure’s”
24th January 2007.
Condition: Very Good ,no restoration just minor chips to leaves and bows.
Size: Gentleman 14 cm high,
Lady 13.3 cm high.
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