A PAIR OF CHELSEA CANDLESTICK-FIGURES OF A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS, he playing the pipe and with a dog seated at his feet, his companion holding a posy and with flowers in her apron, a lamb at her feet, their clothes painted in colours and enriched in gilding, he standing before a tree applied with pink flowers and she before a tree applied with apple-blossom, surmounted by white and gilt pierced wax-pans and nozzles, on high scroll-moulded bases enriched in gilding (he with nozzle extensively restored and parts of tree lacking, she with wax-pan detached and chips to right fingers, both with chips to flowers and foliage), he with gold anchor mark, circa 1765

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A PAIR OF CHELSEA CANDLESTICK-FIGURES OF A SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS, he playing the pipe and with a dog seated at his feet, his companion holding a posy and with flowers in her apron, a lamb at her feet, their clothes painted in colours and enriched in gilding, he standing before a tree applied with pink flowers and she before a tree applied with apple-blossom, surmounted by white and gilt pierced wax-pans and nozzles, on high scroll-moulded bases enriched in gilding (he with nozzle extensively restored and parts of tree lacking, she with wax-pan detached and chips to right fingers, both with chips to flowers and foliage), he with gold anchor mark, circa 1765
28cm. high (2)

拍品专文

Cf. Frank Stoner, Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures, pl. 29