Lot Essay
See the similar pair of figures from the Price Glover Collection, sold in these Rooms on 14 June 1988, lot 78. See also the pair illustrated by Arnold R. Mountford, The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware (London, 1971), no. 238, and the single figure, in Ross E. Taggart, The Burnap Collection of English Pottery (Kansas, 1967), cat. no. 339.