Live Auction 6454Michael Inchbald: A Legacy of Design
A DERBY WHITE 'DRY-EDGE' ALLEGORICAL FIGURE OF AUTUMN
Lot 162

A DERBY WHITE 'DRY-EDGE' ALLEGORICAL FIGURE OF AUTUMN

CIRCA 1750-56

Closed22 January 2014

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GBP 6,000

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A DERBY WHITE 'DRY-EDGE' ALLEGORICAL FIGURE OF AUTUMN
CIRCA 1750-56
Modelled as a rustic figure of a vintner carrying a basket of grapes over his left shoulder, wearing a wide-brimmed tricorn hat, long jacket and open shirt, breeches and an apron, standing on a rocky tree-stump mound base, restoration and minor chipping to extremities
7.1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) high

Wallace Elliot (1866-1935); sold Sotheby's, London, 24-26 May 1938, lot 301 (part lot).
Purchased in the above sale by his nephew Peter Inchbald; subsequently acquired by his brother Geoffrey Inchbald, and by descent to his son Michael Inchbald.

Specialist note

See Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848, London, 1990, pp. 44-46, fig. 31 (B32) for a version of this model in the N.C. Ashton Collection.