English Carved and Polychromed Trade Figure, circa 1850, a 3/4 length female figure carved in the round with fine features; the figure is holding the bottom of her apron which is over her red dress and is sporting a hat with gilded ribbon.

Note: This trade figure was named by its owner, Joshua Quiton Esq., of Devon, England in gratitude for his servant Mary Anne, who saved his two children from drowning. She is dressed in her painted house-apron and was probably mounted in a tavern.

Provenance: Collection of Jacob Isbrandtsen, American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines, New York;
Marine Arts Gallery, Salem Massachusetts, 1975

Exhibited: South Street Seaport Museum, New York, 1971