TEN YEARS AFTER RUSTIC FERN-STAND modelled by James Hadley, with two pairs of children wearing Kate Greenaway style dress seated and standing at each end of an oval log fence, one pair squabbling, the girl aiming to hit her companion with a stick as he tugs her hand, the other pair shown courting ten years after, the young man stooping to small a rose offered by the girl, painted in pale-apricot and stained ivories, on an oval base modelled with two tree-stumps and painted in similar colours, the base pierced for drainage (restoration to base at one end and to right hands of small children, very minor wear to paint and gilding), impressed Hadley, purple printed marks, model number 1167, date code for 1895