THREE BOW BLACKAMOOR FIGURES
CIRCA 1765
Auction: Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie | Wed 3rd Sept at 10am | Lots 45 to 170
Description
one modelled as a Levantine maid wearing a tall pink headdress carrying a basket of fruit, her dress with floral designs, raised on a base and four feet with scroll moulded detail; one modelled as a page with a turban, his pink and ochre garments with gilt bands, the scroll moulded tripartite base applied with flowers and with puce details; one a figural salt modelled as a kneeling lady supporting a floral enamelled basket on her head, raised on a rocaille scroll moulded base with puce enamels; unmarked, one figure with the remnants of a paper label for Newman Antiques (3)
Dimensions
15.5cm - 19cm high
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie