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Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. A152, fig. 184, and p. C276, fig. 210.
Details
A figure of a boy
probably Prince Alfred, wearing sailors garb, modelled standing, hand on hip, a anchor and parcel at his feet, on rocky mound base, circa 1858 (one point of the anchor missing to the reverse and some rubbing) -- 30cm. high; a figure of the 'Soldiers Dream', wearing Highland dress, seated resting his elbow on a drum before a flag, above a mound moulded with the title, on a gilt-line base, circa 1856 (some damages and restoration) -- 35cm. high
See illustration
probably Prince Alfred, wearing sailors garb, modelled standing, hand on hip, a anchor and parcel at his feet, on rocky mound base, circa 1858 (one point of the anchor missing to the reverse and some rubbing) -- 30cm. high; a figure of the 'Soldiers Dream', wearing Highland dress, seated resting his elbow on a drum before a flag, above a mound moulded with the title, on a gilt-line base, circa 1856 (some damages and restoration) -- 35cm. high
See illustration
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