A GROUP OF SNOUT AND BOTTOM from A Midsummer Night's Dream, modelled by William Boyton Kirk, both figures wearing workmen's clothes, Bottom standing with his arms folded, wearing a lilac tunic and tattered yellow breeches, his head transformed into that of a donkey gazing defiantly at Snout recoiling in horror wearing a white-sleeved green tunic and leather apron, on a grassy tree-stump rectangular base with canted corners and edged in gilding, green printed mark, model number 2/78, date code for 1862 8¾in. (22.5cm.) high

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A GROUP OF SNOUT AND BOTTOM from A Midsummer Night's Dream, modelled by William Boyton Kirk, both figures wearing workmen's clothes, Bottom standing with his arms folded, wearing a lilac tunic and tattered yellow breeches, his head transformed into that of a donkey gazing defiantly at Snout recoiling in horror wearing a white-sleeved green tunic and leather apron, on a grassy tree-stump rectangular base with canted corners and edged in gilding, green printed mark, model number 2/78, date code for 1862 8¾in. (22.5cm.) high

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Cf. Paul Atterbury, (ed.), op. cit., p. 214, Fig. 707 for a centrepiece from the 'Shakespeare Service', the stem of which is modelled with this group. See also Geoffrey Godden, Victorian Porcelain, p. 109, pl. 50. The service was shown at the Dublin Exhibition of 1853, where the Kerr & Binns factory first exhibited wares in their new parian body

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