Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. H490, fig. 3.
Details
A figure of William Shakespeare
Circa 1864
Sampson Smith, modelled standing with his right arm resting upon three books upon a pedestal, his left hand on his hip, sparsely coloured and gilt, on oval titled base
Circa 1864
Sampson Smith, modelled standing with his right arm resting upon three books upon a pedestal, his left hand on his hip, sparsely coloured and gilt, on oval titled base