An extremely rare Chelsea figure of a ‘Ranalagh Masquerader’

An extremely rare Chelsea figure of a 'Ranalagh Masquerader', the young man standing, wearing a yellow tricorn hat, turquoise trimmed yellow coat and turquoise breeches, a water bottle over his right shoulder, and holding a birdcage, on flower and leaf applied scroll moulded base, picked out in gilt, 7 3/4" high, circa 1759-62, gold anchor mark

Provenance: With Brian Haughton, November 2001

See J C Austen, Ceramics at Colonial Williamsburg, pages 142 - 147, for a fine group of these figures, but not including this model 

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