Lot Essay
Cf. the example with a differently modelled head but similarly modelled body and stump, described as a finch, sold in these Rooms 16 December 1952, lot 150; see also Bernard Rackham, The Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection, Vol II., Earthenware (1930), pl. 37, fig. 270; the same figure is illustrated by Herbert Read, Staffordshire Pottery Figures (1929), pl. 27.