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Figure of a boy with drum, soft-paste porcelain, mounted on a pedestal with concave cylindrical sides and spreading notched foot-rim, the sides of the pedestal composed of four raised panels, the panel to the front moulded with two drums, drumsticks and two balls, to the top of the pedestal the figure stands on a round base moulded with c-scrolls, the figure clad in Eighteenth century costume with cocked hat, coat, waistcoat, knee breeches, stockings and buckle shoes, the figure beats a drum resting to one side of it, the figure supported by a tree stump with moulded applied flowers; the figure painted in polychrome enamels with realistically painted face, pinkish hat, pink, blue and yellow coat, floral patterned waistcoat, pink and yellow breeches and brown shoes, the drum painted in pink and yellow with brown and orange ornamentation, the applied moulded flowers painted in yellow and green, the base picked out in puce, blue, green and gilt, the pedestal picked out in puce with three of the panels painted with polychrome sprays of flowers.