Beschreibung:

A rare Derby figure group of children playing Hazard c.1780, a boy and a girl either side of a fortune wheel on top of a pillar, a dog seated beside the boy, a basket of fruit covered with a cloth behind the girl, raised on a low base applied with flowers and leaves, incised '95' to the base, damages, 15cm. This group is copied from a 1736 painting by François Boucher entitled Country Fair. A similar version was produced at Sèvres, modelled by Falconet. Peter Bradshaw in Derby Figures illustrates a group on p.247 which includes a second boy standing behind the pillar, however, this figure does not appear to have survived the firing process in this instance.