Figure group in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, of an Alpine shepherdess with a male youth at her feet holding her hand, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, 1780-1785.

Figure group in soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, of an Alpine shepherdess with a male youth at her feet holding her hand, and she is seated on a rocky mound by a tree and has a lamb lying beside her, and the youth wears a pink short-sleeved jacket over a flowered waistcoat, light blue sash, and yellow breeches, and the girl wears a light blue bodice laced in front and a skirt of the same colour over a flowered petticoat.

Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber

One of a pair with 414:420/A-1885 (Sch. I 352A)
The pair was purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Speyer, Amsterdam for £15 in August 1869. In her Journals, vol. I, p. 33, she records: 'Our next best haul was with Speyers, St. Anthony, Breestraat; from him we made several purchases, some of them likely to prove good. Two groups of Derby-Chelsea figures, a man and a girl in bocage of leaves, good condition, only two fingers wanting, "Proposal" and "Acceptance" (?), £15.'
Copied from a Sèvres group known as La Bergère des Alpes, modelled in 1766 by Etienne Falconet after designs by François Boucher.

Bradshaw - a reissue of No. 178 with the addition of a leafing tree p327 pl. 270.

414:420-1885