A Staffordshire creamware model of a lady seated in a high-backed chair

CIRCA 1750

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A Staffordshire creamware model of a lady seated in a high-backed chair
Circa 1750
In lace cap, tight embroidered bodice, flared apron and crinoline, stroking a dog on her lap and seated in an arched pierced-backed chair with curved solid sides, the back moulded with flower-heads and pendant foliage within a gadrooned border, splashed allover in streaked yellow, grey, brown and green glazes (her right arm restored at elbow, her left thumb, tips of dog's paws and tail lacking)
5 3/8in. (13.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar model from the Rous Lench Collection, with her companion, sold in these Rooms 29 May 1990, lot 103. See also Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 (1991) p. 35 and p. 32 col. pl. 2 for the example in the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent and Ross E. Taggart, op. cit., p. 95, no. 331.

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