Beschreibung:

Pair of Longton Hall Porcelain Figures of Musicians Circa 1758, unmarked Modeled dancing, the tambourine player wearing a plumed blue hat, an unusually tailored iron-red lined yellow coat cut away to reveal her puce bodice, the pale-green sleeves with lace Vandyke-style cuffs, ruffled flowered skirt and yellow shoes with matching iron-red bows; her companion, the lyre player, wearing a black plumed hat, a matching cut-away iron-red lined puce coat, yellow waist coat, pale-green sleeves with lace Vandyke-style collar and cuffs, puce breeches and black shoes with yellow bows, the scroll molded tree-stump base edge in puce and pale-green. Height 11 1/2 inches. Provenance: Both with James A. Lewis & Sons, New York (labels). Senator E.A. Maguire Collection. Christie's, London, 21 April 1958, (male figure only). Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York 21 April 1982, . M. Mellanay Delhom Collection, Charlotte, NC. (1982). Exhibited: Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, October 2004 - January 2005 See William Bemrose, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. XXI; Also see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 74a and b for an identical pair of figures in the Lord Fisher Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, U.K. For a male musician from the Duckwall Collection, see Catherine B. Lippert, Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, pp.259-262, cat. no. 63. A pair was sold from the Collection of Mrs. Charles Dunlap, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 3-6 December 1975, . An unidentified saltglazed stoneware version of this model is known and may be associated with William Littler C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
His left finger tips disrepaired, restoration to his left thigh, ankle, top of lyre and hat plume; her right little finger missing, nicks to her hat brim and chip to her hem, minor chips to flowers foliage and ribbons, firing cracks to bases.