Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures Of The Victorian Era (1970), p. C219, fig. 1, for a similar figure of Blake.
Details
A figure of Admiral Robert Blake
wearing a cape and military uniform, standing beside a barrel of a gun, on a shaped rectangular base, mid 19th century -- 26cm. high; a figure of a man modelled seated a cup in his right hand, on rectangular gilt-line base, circa 1870 -- 12.5cm. high; a window rest; a pepper pot modelled as a toby man; another similar pot and cover; and a two-sided figure of a man titled 'Water' and 'Gin', late 19th century (6)
wearing a cape and military uniform, standing beside a barrel of a gun, on a shaped rectangular base, mid 19th century -- 26cm. high; a figure of a man modelled seated a cup in his right hand, on rectangular gilt-line base, circa 1870 -- 12.5cm. high; a window rest; a pepper pot modelled as a toby man; another similar pot and cover; and a two-sided figure of a man titled 'Water' and 'Gin', late 19th century (6)
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