Soft paste porcelain figure of a so called Mansion House Dwarf or Dwarf Crier standing in full figure on a round grassy base and wearing black shoes with pink ribbons a striped pantaloons with floral doublet and pink sleeves with gilded highlights holding a staff in his left hand with large brown mustache and wearing a tall conical hat with narrow brim highlighted in gold and with a black ribbon the top of the hat has a piece of newsprint with advertisements

Dwarf Crier

Derby Porcelain Manufactory, William Duesbury & Co.

1780-1800

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