A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE FIGURE GROUP

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE FIGURE GROUP
CIRCA 1760

Modelled as a seated couple about to embrace, his left hand behind her head, his right hiking up her skirt to her knee; she with an arm around his back and resisting his advances with her left hand (lacking bocage, his left ankle restored, cracks to her waist and base, base chipped)-- 5¼in. (13.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. The Nelson Atkins Museum, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection for a comparable figure group.

See also Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1935 no. 803, p. 54, vol. II, fig. B