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Pair of Derby (Andrew Planche) Porcelain 'Dry-Edge' Models of Sheep and Goats Circa 1750-52, unmarked One modeled as a recumbent goat suckling a kid; the other as an ewe nestling a lamb, on rockwork mound bases. Lengths 4 3/4 and 3 1/2 inches, respectively. Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 13 October 1970, . With Winifred Williams, Antiques, London, 1970. For a similar ewe and lamb group from the Stratham Collection see, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, U.K., object no. C.34-1992. http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82726 For a Staffordshire saltglazed stoneware example, see the Glaisher Collection, object no. C.806-1928, pl. 56D. For a related painted pair from the Schreiber Collection, see the Victoria & Albert Museum, no. 414:207/A and B-1885 and MacAlister, William Duesbury's London Account Book, pl. Iic and p.x.x. For a related white pair in the N.C. Ashton Collection, see Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848, London, 1990, pp. 34-35, fig. B6. Also see John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, London, 1980, plate 5. For a related white pair, see Christie's, New York, 22 & 23 October 2003, . C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
Goat's neck broken and reattached, restoration to horns and kid's ear, circular hairline on mound under hoof, sheep's ears and tail, nick to lamb's ear.