CIRCA 1850-70
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Eight Staffordshire figures
Circa 1850-70
The first modelled as a Fortune Teller spill-vase, with an old woman wearing a red cloak studying the hand of a young lady wearing a flowered dress, both standing between a tree-trunk spill, on a grassy moulded oval base; a clockholder painted with pink roses with birds balanced on top, surrounded by a group of three Highland dancers with blue bodices and tartan skirts, on a rocky yellow oval base; two children standing between an orange windmill on an oval base; a courting couple in white enriched in gilt on a shaped oval base; two vintners standing between a basket filled with grapes; a nightwatchman helping a drunkard home, painted with brown and black enamels on an oval grassy base with puce scrolls; a gentleman siting in a punt on a river before a castle spill-vase painted in colours on an oval base, and a single figure of a lady wearing a pink hat and blue and white dress on a circular base (crack to clockholder base, minor hairline cracks, chipping and light flaking to enamels in general)
The first 12 in. (30 cm.) high (8)
Circa 1850-70
The first modelled as a Fortune Teller spill-vase, with an old woman wearing a red cloak studying the hand of a young lady wearing a flowered dress, both standing between a tree-trunk spill, on a grassy moulded oval base; a clockholder painted with pink roses with birds balanced on top, surrounded by a group of three Highland dancers with blue bodices and tartan skirts, on a rocky yellow oval base; two children standing between an orange windmill on an oval base; a courting couple in white enriched in gilt on a shaped oval base; two vintners standing between a basket filled with grapes; a nightwatchman helping a drunkard home, painted with brown and black enamels on an oval grassy base with puce scrolls; a gentleman siting in a punt on a river before a castle spill-vase painted in colours on an oval base, and a single figure of a lady wearing a pink hat and blue and white dress on a circular base (crack to clockholder base, minor hairline cracks, chipping and light flaking to enamels in general)
The first 12 in. (30 cm.) high (8)
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