Live Auction 16722The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: English & European Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations, Part II
TWO LONGTON HALL PORCELAIN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION
Lot 788

TWO LONGTON HALL PORCELAIN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION

CIRCA 1755

Closed10 May 2018

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TWO LONGTON HALL PORCELAIN FIGURES OF A GARDENER AND COMPANION
CIRCA 1755
The gardener modeled with a basket of flowers and an urn, the companion attending to a cat
8 ½ in. (20.5 cm.) high, the gardener

Mrs. William Babington Macaulay, New York.
With French & Co., New York.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, 1937-48.
The Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, acquired February 1958.

Specialist note

For another example of the gardener model in the Cecil Higgins Museum, identified as a flower-seller, see B. Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, London, 1957, no. 61C.