Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A Longton Hall 'Snowman' figure of a Polish Nobleman, c.1752, loosely based on Peter Reinicke's figure at Meissen, standing with one hand on his hip, a sword on his left hip, raised on a small square base, broken through the neck and cleanly restuck, 14.2cm.

Cf. E & H Manners exhibition catalogue of The Roy Hogarth Collection of Rare English Figures, No. 20 for a similar London-decorated figure. Also, Peter Bradshaw, Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures, p.229, pl.134 for a Longton figure from the transitional period.

Provenance: the John Buckingham Collection.