A pair of pearlware models of camels

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A pair of pearlware models of camels
modelled as a bacterian and a dromedary, standing, facing left and right before spill-vases on rocky mound bases, painted in colours, each impressed 8 -- 6in. (15.2cm.) wide, circa 1825-30 (chips to tails, some minor chips and flakes)

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Provenance: R. Soden-Smith Collection Nos. 109/943 and 109/944 (partial paper labels)

Cf. Circus & Sport English Earthenware Figures 1780-1840 by Pat Halfpenny and Stella Beddoe, 1990, No. 5. Stoke-on-Trent City Museum & Art Gallery (3329 & 3330)

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