Modeled as a farmer standing before a tree-stump, holding a pig
13⅞ in. (35.5 cm.) high

Acquired from Stoner and Evans, New York, October 1950.

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, vol. IV, 1992, pp. 62-63, no. 37.

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The tale of the "Tythe Pig Group" is usually depicted with a parson and pig, the farmer and his wife. The farmer's wife is refusing to part with the tenth (or tythe) pig unless the parson takes the tenth child also.