Live Auction 7821The Barratt Collection - from Crowe Hall, Bath
A LEAD FIGURE OF A GAMEKEEPER
Lot 386

A LEAD FIGURE OF A GAMEKEEPER

ENGLISH, 18TH CENTURY

Closed16 December 2010

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GBP 27,500

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A LEAD FIGURE OF A GAMEKEEPER
ENGLISH, 18TH CENTURY
Of life-size proportions, dressed in a black cap and green overcoat, firing a musket, with later iron screws to the underside of the feet, the painted decoration refreshed
61 in. (155 cm.) high

Specialist note

The present figure appears to be known in at least one other version at Biel House, Haddingtonshire which is illustrated in L. Weaver, English Leadwork: Its Art and History, London, 1909, fig. 291.
Another related figure depicted with his hound is at Swaffham, Norfolk.