Lot Essay
According to P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. B201, all recorded figures of Washington have Franklin's head and all the figures have Franklin's body.
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A Staffordshire figure of George Washington
wearing long coat, waistcoat, breeches and stockings, modelled standing holding a tricorn in his left hand and a document in his right, sparsely coloured and gilt, on shaped oval gilt titled base, mid 19th century (overpainting to black enamels, rubbing to gilding) -- 40cm. high
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wearing long coat, waistcoat, breeches and stockings, modelled standing holding a tricorn in his left hand and a document in his right, sparsely coloured and gilt, on shaped oval gilt titled base, mid 19th century (overpainting to black enamels, rubbing to gilding) -- 40cm. high
See illustration
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