![An image of Gentleman with hunting dog [one of a pair] by Derby](http://media2.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection_images/Alpha/L2012.117%23%23S.jpg)
Derby
(England 1750– )
- Title
- Gentleman with hunting dog [one of a pair]
- Year
- circa 1765-1770
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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22.5 x 10.2 x 9.4 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.117
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
This figure and a lady with hunting dog (L2012.116) are said to be based on Chelsea prototypes. In other examples the man sometimes holds a sporting gun. The bases each have three patch marks, as is characteristic of Derby figures during the 1760s.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 72 (colour illus.). cat.no. 85
