A CONTINENTAL FAIENCE BUST OF A NEGRO PLAYING A BANJO, WITH PEDESTAL, the smiling bearded figure with a realistically painted face and hands, wearing a floppy top-hat applied with clay chips and adorned with a blue ribbon and pink and yellow flowers, a striped shirt, striped and flowered neckerchief, green jacket with gilt buttons and a claret waistcoat, his a detachable instrument with a wooden stem, the marbled tapering pedestal festooned with swags of flowers and with moulded horizontal bands of acanthus leaves, shells, scrolls, ribbon-tied reeds and bosses, on a flared base, enriched overall in gilding (chips, damage to instrument, repaired crack to base of bust), circa 1880