A WEDGWOOD QUEEN'S WARE ALLEGORICAL FIGURE OF PRUDENCE

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A WEDGWOOD QUEEN'S WARE ALLEGORICAL FIGURE OF PRUDENCE
CIRCA 1810, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE MARK

Wearing a flower sprig gown and flowerhead drape, walking forward and brandishing a sword, a serpent in her right hand, impressed PRUDENCE, Jacobs Collection no. 206 (restoration to front of base, right wrist, hand, sleeve and serpent)--21¼in. (54cm.) high

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Cf. G.W. and F.A. Rhead, Staffordshire Pots and Potters, New York, 1907, p. 264, illus. opposite p. 264 for another example in the Glaisher Collection, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. In 1769, Teodore Parker is known to have modelled for Wedgwood a figure of 'Prudence'. It is possible that the present fiugre is all example of that model. It is based on the figure of Prudence (circa 1790) made by Ralph wood the Younger or by Enoch Wood. Cf. H. Read, Staffordshire Pottery Figures, London, 1929, plate 45