Lot 93: A PAIR OF DERBY CHILDREN WITH MACARONI DOG AND CAT CIRCA 1770

modelled as a smiling girl, one foot raised on a treestump, cuddling a grey tabby cat wearing a white bonnet, and a boy kneeling beside a rocky outcrop on which lies a spaniel wearing a cocked hat; together with a Derby model of a 'Dresden Shepherdess', circa 1760, her apron full of flowers, a lamb at her feet, raised on a scroll-moulded base

Condition Note: some restoration

pair 15.9cm. 6 1/4 in.

QUANTITY: 3

In the eighteenth century 'Macaroni' was a term used to describe a fop or dandy wearing decorative clothes. It was also applied to animals.