拍品 39
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A PAIR OF CHELSEA FIGURES OF PILGRIMS wearing short capes moulded with coloured scallop-shells, he holding a Cross and scallop-shell, his green-brimmed puce hat with a shell and wearing a white jacket and green breeches, standing before a tree-stump applied with flowers, his companion wearing a puce hat with a shell, pale-yellow dress and puce and green flowered underskirt, the circular bases applied with flowers and moulded with puce-edged scrolls (he restored through neck and right hand repaired, his Cross a restored replacement, she restored through waist, repair to right hand and Cross lacking, both with chips to flowers and foliage), circa 1760

细节
A PAIR OF CHELSEA FIGURES OF PILGRIMS wearing short capes moulded with coloured scallop-shells, he holding a Cross and scallop-shell, his green-brimmed puce hat with a shell and wearing a white jacket and green breeches, standing before a tree-stump applied with flowers, his companion wearing a puce hat with a shell, pale-yellow dress and puce and green flowered underskirt, the circular bases applied with flowers and moulded with puce-edged scrolls (he restored through neck and right hand repaired, his Cross a restored replacement, she restored through waist, repair to right hand and Cross lacking, both with chips to flowers and foliage), circa 1760
14cm. high (2)

拍品专文

Whilst Pilgrim figures of the later gold anchor period are documented (see the examples from the H. J. Joel Collection sold in these Rooms on 17 April 1980, lot 17), the present pair of figures, perhaps inspired by those modelled by J.J. Kändler for Meissen, would appear to be unrecorded in the literature