Details
Each modeled as a boy striding forward with one leg raised and donning a leaf-form hat, mounted on an ormolu base with three foliate-form drip-pans and nozzles on scrolling arms, the rockwork ground raised on a rocaille base
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high, overall, the taller
Provenance
By repute, from the collection of Nellie Lisa Melles, 2nd Baroness Burton (1873–1962) and thence by descent to Michael Evan Victor Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton (1924–2013).
Acquired from Partridge, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1983.
Exhibited
Exhibited at the Birmingham Art Gallery for 35 years.
San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, A Curious Affair: the Fascination Between East and West, 17 June-3 September 2006.
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