Staffordshire Prattware money box cottage

pre-Victorian, circa 1800. 4.9ins high, 4.6ins wide, 2.8ins depth. Staffordshire Prattware money box which features a cottage flanked by a lady and a gentleman, with two children's heads peeping out of the upstairs windows, directly on the ground, no base. Multi-coloured with underglaze blue version.







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





Book reference,'Pratt Ware 1780-1840' by John and Griselda Lewis, page 254.

Condition

Generally good. KILN EFFECTS: shrinkage crack between gentleman and cottage;





some staining to craze lines to gentleman and cottage.







RESTORATION: filled chips to chimney,









roof edges





and to ground in front of lady and gentleman;





lady's head reglued and join retouched.




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