FINE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
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A very rare and fine pair
of Derby Dry Edge models of Wild Boars, one seated, modelled after the
antique, its head turned to the right, on an oval rocky base applied with
coloured flowers and leaves, the other trotting, its head turned to the
left, its left foreleg lifted and its belly attached to a tree trunk
support, the oblong base similarly applied with reddish flowers and
leaves, both naturalistically coloured with brown and black markings to
their coats.
Circa: 1752 – 1755 (of the Planché Period)
Height: 5 ½ ins (14 cm)
Length: 6 ins (15.2 cm)
The models are also found in the white and of the coloured examples known,
it can be generally inferred that they were decorated outside the factory,
possibly in the Duesbury workshop. Indeed a pair are recorded in the
account books under the name Michill at five shillings for the date
October 17th 1752, see Mrs. D. Macalister, William Duesbury’s London
Account Book, 1751 – 1753, 1931, p.19.
The seated Boar is based on an antique marble in the Uffizi Gallery,
Florence. For the examples in the Franks Collection within the British
Museum, see the Exhibition Catalogue, “Eighteenth Century English
Porcelain”, from the British Museum, exhibited as The Loan Exhibition for
the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, London, June 1987, no. 38.
See also R.L. Hobson, “Catalogue of English Porcelain”, London, 1905, no.
28 & no. 29, W. King “English Porcelain at the British Museum, Early
Derby”, Country Life, 19th January 1929, p.99, fig. 3. For the Pair in
Metropolitan Museum, New York, see Dr. Yvonne Hackenbroch, “Chelsea and
Other English Porcelain in the Irwin Untermyer Collection”, fig. 279. See
also a single seated example sold by this gallery and now in the Frances
and Emory Cocke Collection at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
illustrated, Donald Peirce, “English Ceramics The Frances and Emory Cocke
Collection”, pl. 115, p.120.
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