Property of a Distinguished Dutch Collection
A Dutch Delft polychrome group of two gentlemen in a rowing boat, circa 1760-80
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June 9, 02:06 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description
modelled seated facing each other, at each end of the boat, both wearing a brown coat and black hat and breeches, one holding a pair of oars, the other with his legs crossed
(3)
Length 22.3 cm., 8 ⅞ in.
With Bernhard Stodel, Amsterdam (by repute).
Very few of these models appear to be recorded. A pair are published by Robert D. Aronson, Tangible Memories, The Mr. & Mrs. H.C. Bout Collection, The Gaston De Ramax Collection and other recent acquisitions, Amsterdam, 2018, pp. 132-135, ill. 80. Examples sold at auction include, one at Sotheby's, London, 6 November 2014, lot 7, and another, previously with the Antique Company of New York, Inc., March, 1971, was sold from The Collection Of Nelson & Happy Rockefeller, Sotheby's, New York, 18 January 2019, lot 404.
A varying model of figures in a boat is in the Glaisher Collection, previously in the Lovett collection, bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in 1928, object no. C.2772-1928 (published in the collection catalogue by Bernard Rackham, Cambridge, 1935, Vol. I, p. 346, no. 2772, Vol. II, p. 216, pl. 216E.).