Description :  The shepherdess 'sits' against a sheep, with a low bocage to her left, with her male colleague similarly braced against a tree stump, standing between further bocage and his dog; she hold a posy of flowers, he holds a fipple flute

Features: Both characters are extravagantly dressed, and in exceptionally bright colours for rural folk; their clothing shares an identical palette with - most tellingly - matching eight-pointed 'star' features, which indicates that they may well be an original pair, having remained together for some 260 years.

Condition : Excellent; some glaze-crazing, the inevitable losses to the tips of petals and leaves from the bocage, and some firing cracks - especially to the underside of the shepherdesses skirt, above her recumbent charge. The extremities of her posy, and of her partners fingers, have also suffered very minor losses

Restoration : none

Dimensions : 18.0 and 17.8 cm tall respectively

Weight : 680 grams for the pair


We do not offer combined postage as the figure we charge reflect the time taken to pack and source packaging material which is incredibly time-consuming. Ultimately, it is the combined price which reflects the true cost.

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We use recycled packaging. It helps our environmental footprint, but does not necessarily look very pretty!

If the postage policy specifies that postage is included, we will send by tracked postage, rather than tracked and signed. If you wish for the latter, please let us know. There will be an additional charge which we will notify to you.

When we send by tracked alone the item will be at your risk from the point that we can prove, by means of showing a delivery confirmation, that it was delivered to your premises. Until that point, the item will be at our risk.

We are prepared to deliver all over the world, except (for obvious reasons, given the Russian state's  unprovoked acts of aggression in Ukraine) to Russia.

We aim to ensure that our descriptions are absolutely accurate. Nevertheless, antique porcelain is never perfect. We use high definition photography with the aim of making the condition of any item extremely clear. Defects which are obvious in the photography we use are deemed to have been declared, even if we do not specifically refer to them in the description. 

Restoration is sometimes extremely difficult to detect. We use UV light and transmitted light to check whether restoration has occurred. Sometimes, even those methodologies do not reveal restoration. If you are able, notwithstanding the definition, to show that restoration of a significant nature has occurred, we would obviously allow cancellation of the sale in such circumstances.