Pair of mid-19th Century Spanish cold painted terracotta figures by José Cubero Gabardón (1818-1877), modelled in traditional dress, each with a gun raised on rectangular base with applied printed paper label 'JOSE CUBERO, ESCULTOR. Pasage de Heredia No. 23, MALAGA', under glass domes on turned ebonised bases, 29cm high (ex. domes with bases)
A group of comparable figures formerly in the collection of the Dukes of Bedford, where they were displayed in the (now demolished) Museum Room at Woburn Abbey in the 19th century.
See 'Property from Two Ducal Collections Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire', Christie's 2004
Sold for £1,400
Pair of mid-19th Century Spanish cold painted terracotta figures by José Cubero Gabardón (1818-1877), modelled in traditional dress, each with a gun raised on rectangular base with applied printed paper label 'JOSE CUBERO, ESCULTOR. Pasage de Heredia No. 23, MALAGA', under glass domes on turned ebonised bases, 29cm high (ex. domes with bases)
A group of comparable figures formerly in the collection of the Dukes of Bedford, where they were displayed in the (now demolished) Museum Room at Woburn Abbey in the 19th century.
See 'Property from Two Ducal Collections Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire', Christie's 2004
Auction: Quarterly Specialist Sale, 10th Mar, 2022
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