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C.f. Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures, p.256 for an illustration of a similar group from the collection of the Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton
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A pearlware group of the 'Sacrifice of Isaac'
typically modelled, the Angel in flight and about to stay Abraham's hand as he presses his knife against Isaac's throat, a ram in the background before bocages and a flaming altar to one side applied with the inscription HE SAID LAY NOT THINE AND UPON THE LAD NEITHER DO THOU ANY THING UNTO HIM(sic.), enriched in colours -- 7½in. (19cm.) high, circa 1815-1825 (damages and restoration)
See illustration
typically modelled, the Angel in flight and about to stay Abraham's hand as he presses his knife against Isaac's throat, a ram in the background before bocages and a flaming altar to one side applied with the inscription HE SAID LAY NOT THINE AND UPON THE LAD NEITHER DO THOU ANY THING UNTO HIM(sic.), enriched in colours -- 7½in. (19cm.) high, circa 1815-1825 (damages and restoration)
See illustration