Lot 165
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A GILBERT WILLIAM BAYES (1872-1953) STONEWARE POST FINIAL MADE BY ROYAL DOULTON (EST.1815)
A GILBERT WILLIAM BAYES (1872-1953) STONEWARE POST FINIAL MADE BY ROYAL DOULTON (EST.1815)

CIRCA 1936

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A GILBERT WILLIAM BAYES (1872-1953) STONEWARE POST FINIAL MADE BY ROYAL DOULTON (EST.1815)
CIRCA 1936
Modelled and cast as a tailor holding a large pair of scissors, glazed in colours, with metal securing pipe, signed Gilbert Bayes

Figure 21 in. (53.3 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

"These polychrome stoneware sculptures were used as finials for washing line posts at St Pancras Housing association Estates, and also as garden ornaments. They featured in exhibitions around the country and abroad form 1936 and until 1939." Paul Atterbury & Louise Irvine, The Doulton Story, V&A ,1979, p. 30

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