Live Auction 5962Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A BOW WHITE FIGURE OF A SALTBOX PLAYER
Lot 88

A BOW WHITE FIGURE OF A SALTBOX PLAYER

CIRCA 1755

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 1,875

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A BOW WHITE FIGURE OF A SALTBOX PLAYER
CIRCA 1755
Modelled as a gentleman seated on rockwork, with a saltbox resting on his left knee, playing with his right hand, wearing a shirt with frilled collar, buttoned jacket, breeches and a hat with a feather at the brim (right hand, stick, upper part of saltbox, section of hat brim and feather restored, small chips to edge of jacket, bows on each shoe and to bow on one knee)
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high

With Brian Haughton, London.

Specialist note

For a coloured version of this model see Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures, London, 1992, p. 146, pl. 146. Another example, as Harlequin, his breeches painted with playing cards, was sold by Christie's New York on 21 May 1997, lot 13.