Description
seated on its haunches on a mound base eating fruit, its fur naturalistically washed in brown, the base applied with flowers and picked out in puce
c.1760
Ht. 2.4 inches
Rous Lench Collection label on base.
Proveance:- Rous Lench Collection.
Two related models are recorded, one with a similar monkey carrying its baby on its back; see Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain (1982), no.260. The other has the monkey mounted on the same base as a putto.