Lot Essay
Cf. P.D.Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures (New York, 1971), pl. C301, pl. 97.
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CIRCA 1860
Details
A Staffordshire figure of Garibaldi and another similar of Sir Charles Napier
CIRCA 1860
The first modelled standing with an arm around his horse, wearing an orange military jacket, white breeches and carrying a sword, on a mottled green and brown shaped oval base, titled in gilt script Garibaldi (lower-part of horse's leg re-stuck, slight glaze flaking); the second model similar, standing by his horse, wearing military uniform in orange, on a mottled green and brown base, titled NAPIER in black uppercase (minute flaking to enamels)
The first 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1860
The first modelled standing with an arm around his horse, wearing an orange military jacket, white breeches and carrying a sword, on a mottled green and brown shaped oval base, titled in gilt script Garibaldi (lower-part of horse's leg re-stuck, slight glaze flaking); the second model similar, standing by his horse, wearing military uniform in orange, on a mottled green and brown base, titled NAPIER in black uppercase (minute flaking to enamels)
The first 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high (2)
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