Lot 117 , Three Derby porcelain seated groups, c.1830, 14cm - 15.5cm

Three Derby porcelain seated groups, c.1830, including a pair of biscuit figures modelled as a girl with a King Charles Spaniel, incised mark no. 56 and a boy with a cat and a enamelled group of a girl with a cat, red Derby mark, incised no. 362, 14cm - 15.5cm
Estimate £60-80

Provenance -
ex D G Rice collection.

Literature -
cf. Dennis G Rice, Cats in English Porcelain, colour plates 13 and 25.

The enamel group has fire crazing throughout, wear to the gilding, open crack to one stool leg and losses to end of spoon. Some typical minor flaws in the manufacture.
The biscuit figures have losses to fingers of one hand on girl, flowers on both.
Boy's chair has been broken and re-glued. Firing cracks to bases on both with some of the feet lifting off base. Discolouration to both


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Sold for £160