A SET OF FOUR DIXON, AUSTIN & CO. PEARLWARE FIGURES EMBLEMTATIC OF THE SEASONS wearing purple-lustred draped robes and each named on the base, SPRING with a bunch of flowers and standing beside an upturned cornucopia of flowers, SUMMER with a bunch of fruit and a cornucopia of fruit, AUTUMN with a sickle and sheaf of corn and WINTER with a brazier at his feet, standing on green and brown rockwork above square bases (minor flaking to enamels, Spring and Summer with slight chips to bases), impressed marks, circa 1820

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A SET OF FOUR DIXON, AUSTIN & CO. PEARLWARE FIGURES EMBLEMTATIC OF THE SEASONS wearing purple-lustred draped robes and each named on the base, SPRING with a bunch of flowers and standing beside an upturned cornucopia of flowers, SUMMER with a bunch of fruit and a cornucopia of fruit, AUTUMN with a sickle and sheaf of corn and WINTER with a brazier at his feet, standing on green and brown rockwork above square bases (minor flaking to enamels, Spring and Summer with slight chips to bases), impressed marks, circa 1820
23cm. high (4)

Lot Essay

For the models, without the lustre decoration, see Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840, p. 123 and Griselda Lewis, A Collector's History of English Pottery, p. 177

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