Collection of Astbury-Whieldon pottery figures of musicians and drinker mid 18th century

Dated: 1750 to 1760 Staffordshire England

A rare assemblage of early English pottery figures of a horn player, bagpipers, a violinist, and a seated figure drinking. The five characters have creamware bodies decorated with splashed green, mustard, brown, and blue, all modeled on brown bases except for the horn player who sits on a white base. The figures are lead-glazed in the typical Astbury-Whieldon manner. Two of the figures retain the paper label of Frank Partridge, an antique dealer previously located in London and New York. The underside of the bases marked with Museum reference numbers.

Dimensions: 6.25 inches high

Current Condition: The figures have professional restoration as follows; Bagpiper with bluish hat, the tip of pipe, Bagpiper with a brown hat, at neck and tip of the pipe, the horn player, two cracks in horn, violinist crack at the base, left foot, wrist and bow, the drinker neck of the bottle.

Provenance: Frank Partridge London and the Art Institue of Chicago

Literature: Old English Pottery ASTBURY FIGURES by Cyril Andrade published in 1924. The Burnap Collection of English Pottery Revised in 1967 by Rose E. Taggart. A Potted HIstory The Willett Collection located at the Brighton Museum by Stella Beddoe.

£15000    $20250