Of Astbury-Whieldon type, seated on a mossy mound, extracting a thorn from his foot
6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high

Acquired from Antique Porcelain Company, New York, December 1967.

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 96, no. 92.

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This particular figure has always appealed to me very much for its grotesqueness.
D.R.

See L. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800, London, 1990, no.183, p. 326-327, no. 183 for a similar example.