Gillers Antiques Ltd has dated these Derby Porcelain Wild Boars to the Georgian era.
The design derives from the Florentine boar type after Pietro Tacca’s “Il Porcellino”, adapted into English porcelain through small-scale copies circulating in aristocratic collections such as Chatsworth.
The modelling is bold and direct, with compact bodies and expressive heads. Decoration is restrained, with brown brushwork, pink snouts and ears, black hooves and simple floral bases. The undersides are unglazed and pierced with ventilation holes.
The model is documented in William Duesbury’s account book under the name “Michill”, priced at five shillings (equivalent to roughly £850 today) in October 1752.
Measurements
Boar 1 (seated): weight 520 g, height 10 cm (3.9?), length 15 cm (5.9?), depth 8 cm (3.1?)
Boar 2 (trotting): weight 562 g, height 10 cm (3.9?), length 14 cm (5.5?), depth 8.5 cm (3.3?)
Condition
Both figures are in excellent antique condition. As expected for heavy early soft-paste porcelain of this date, both show firing cracks and kiln-related lines caused during manufacture. One boar has a small chip to one tusk. Otherwise, both remain very well preserved.
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Gillers Antiques Ltd has dated these Derby Porcelain Wild Boars to the Georgian era.
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Derby porcelain pair of wild boars model B1 c.1755
