Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A CARPENTER
Lot 85

A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A CARPENTER

CIRCA 1755

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 8,750

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A CHELSEA FIGURE OF A CARPENTER
CIRCA 1755
Modelled standing with one foot forward, holding an axe over one shoulder supporting a sack of tools and a saw, a small cloth bag in his right hand and a hammer tucked into the apron around his waist, in a black hat, yellow scarf, a white waistcoat with gilt buttons, white coat and pale yellow breeches, the mound base applied with flowers and leaves (blade of axe chipped, right hand restored through wrist, hammer lacking at waist, hairline crack to tree-stump and left ankle)
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high

With D.M. & P. Manheim, London (according to paper label attached to the base).
With Errol Manners, London.

Specialist note

See William King, English Porcelain figures of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1925, fig. 27 for a similar example and Reginald Blunt (ed.), The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery, London, 1924, pl. 6, no. 174 for the example from the McEuan Collection.