DERBY BLACKAMOOR FIGURAL CENTREPIECE OR SWEETMEAT STAND
CIRCA 1770
Auction: Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie | Wed 3rd Sept at 10am | Lots 45 to 170
Description
modelled as two males and two female figures, wearing floral sprigged garments, kneeling around a central stem with a scallop shell moulded dish resting upon his or her knee, each dish painted to the interior with a spray of flowers, raised on a shell moulded base with rocaille and scroll details with gilt highlights, unmarked
Dimensions
23cm high
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie