Lot Essay
Cf. Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 (Suffolk, 1991), p. 165.
CIRCA 1815, IMPRESSED AND INCISED MARK
Details
A Wood & Caldwell figure of Britannia
Circa 1815, impressed and incised mark
Wearing helmet, scale-moulded bodice with iron-red skirt and yellow and blue drape, modelled seated on a mound with the lion of Britain to her right and a shield to her left, on shaped oval base
9½ in. (24.2 cm.) high
Circa 1815, impressed and incised mark
Wearing helmet, scale-moulded bodice with iron-red skirt and yellow and blue drape, modelled seated on a mound with the lion of Britain to her right and a shield to her left, on shaped oval base
9½ in. (24.2 cm.) high
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