Lot Essay
Cf. P.D Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures (New York, 1971), fig. 236(b). The same figure is sometimes titled Begging Sailor.
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CIRCA 1854
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A Staffordshire pottery figure of a sailor
Circa 1854
Modelled with a sailor, wearing straw hat, white trousers and shirt, orange cravat and blue jacket, modelled standing resting a small model of a sailing boat on his left shoulder, a bag slung over his shoulder, his right hand resting on the head of a young boy who holds a hat in his right hand, on shaped oval base titled in gilt SAILOR (slight chip to boy's nose and flaking to enamels generally)
17¼ in. (43.8 cm.) high
Circa 1854
Modelled with a sailor, wearing straw hat, white trousers and shirt, orange cravat and blue jacket, modelled standing resting a small model of a sailing boat on his left shoulder, a bag slung over his shoulder, his right hand resting on the head of a young boy who holds a hat in his right hand, on shaped oval base titled in gilt SAILOR (slight chip to boy's nose and flaking to enamels generally)
17¼ in. (43.8 cm.) high
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