Walton Staffordshire Pearlware girl with lamb figure

pre-Victorian, circa 1820. 5.5ins high, 3.3ins wide, 2.2ins depth. Walton Staffordshire pearlware bocage figure with a pastoral theme which features a girl playing with a lamb, stood on a shaped base. Multi-coloured version.







Decorated 'in the round' - decoration to front and reverse.



Open bottomed.



Maker's marks Walton molded ribbon.



Book reference,'People, Passions, Pastimes and Pleasures. Staffordshire figures 1810-1835', by Myrna Schkolne, page 296.

Condition

Generally good. Small flake to lower base edge and to tip of two leaves.







KILN EFFECTS: touch marks to base at reverse and to girl's left hand;





fleck of stray coloured glaze to girl's left arm.



RESTORATION. All four bocage branches reglued and join retouched.



Filled chips to 3 bocage leaf tips. One bocage leaf remodelled. 90% of bocage is original pottery.


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