Rare Derby porcelain wild boars pair c.1755
£8,000.00
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A rare pair of early Derby soft-paste porcelain wild boars, c. 1755, recorded by Bradshaw as model B1, "Wild Boars - one sitting, the other trotting". Comparable examples are held in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the model is recognised as a key work of the earliest Derby "dry-edge" period.
The design follows the Florentine boar type after Pietro Tacca's interpretation of the antique marble in the Uffizi, known through the bronze "Il Porcellino". Bradshaw notes that the seated figure was likely based on small marble or bronze copies circulating in England, including those in aristocratic collections such as Chatsworth.
The pair shows all defining features of early Derby production: bold modelling, restrained palette with brown brushwork, pink snouts and ears, black hooves, and simple applied floral bases with unglazed undersides and ventilation holes.
The applied flowers are of particular importance. A pair is recorded in William Duesbury's account book under the name "Michill", priced at five shillings (a meaningful sum at the time, equivalent to roughly £850 today) in October 1752.
Measurements
Boar 1 (seated): weight 520 g, height 10 cm (3.9″), length 15 cm (5.9″), depth 8 cm (3.1″)
Boar 2 (trotting): weight 562 g, height 10 cm (3.9″), length 14 cm (5.5″), depth 8.5 cm (3.3″)
Condition
Both figures are in excellent antique condition. As expected for heavy early soft-paste porcelain of this date, both show firing cracks and kiln-related lines caused during manufacture. One boar has a small chip to one tusk. Otherwise, both remain very well preserved.
Shipping & Packaging
Fully tracked and insured delivery.
Shipping cost includes labour, packaging and postage.
Carefully packed using appropriate materials.
Please study all photographs as they form part of the description.
Questions are welcome.
Rare Derby porcelain wild boars pair c.1755
£8,000.00
The design follows the Florentine boar type after Pietro Tacca's interpretation of the antique marble in the Uffizi, known through the bronze "Il Porcellino". Bradshaw notes that the seated figure was likely based on small marble or bronze copies circulating in England, including those in aristocratic collections such as Chatsworth.
The pair shows all defining features of early Derby production: bold modelling, restrained palette with brown brushwork, pink snouts and ears, black hooves, and simple applied floral bases with unglazed undersides and ventilation holes.
The applied flowers are of particular importance. A pair is recorded in William Duesbury's account book under the name "Michill", priced at five shillings (a meaningful sum at the time, equivalent to roughly £850 today) in October 1752.
Measurements
Boar 1 (seated): weight 520 g, height 10 cm (3.9″), length 15 cm (5.9″), depth 8 cm (3.1″)
Boar 2 (trotting): weight 562 g, height 10 cm (3.9″), length 14 cm (5.5″), depth 8.5 cm (3.3″)
Condition
Both figures are in excellent antique condition. As expected for heavy early soft-paste porcelain of this date, both show firing cracks and kiln-related lines caused during manufacture. One boar has a small chip to one tusk. Otherwise, both remain very well preserved.
Shipping & Packaging
Fully tracked and insured delivery.
Shipping cost includes labour, packaging and postage.
Carefully packed using appropriate materials.
Please study all photographs as they form part of the description.
Questions are welcome.