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A rare Bow figure of a street cook

A rare Bow figure of a street cook, after a Meissen model by Christophe Huet, for the 'Cris de Paris' Series, the young man standing, wearing a white cap, puce patterned waistcoat and blue breeches,and heating a saucepan on a boldly marbled brazier, the scroll moulded mound base picked out in puce, 6 1/4" high, circa 1757, no mark

Provenance; Brenda Dunning Collection

See Peter Bradshaw, Bow Porcelain Figures, plate 126, for a similar figure. Another is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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A rare Bow figure of a street cook