Pair Staffordshire flower basket poodles

Victorian, circa 1850. Tallest is 4.5ins high, 3.3ins wide, 2ins depth. Pair of Staffordshire figures which feature a poodle with a flower basket in it's mouth, stood on a footstool base.



Dull gilt base line.



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

Condition

CONDITION: Right facing: Good. No restoration.

Flake to one petal and flakes to the shredded clay.





KILN EFFECTS: kiln soot caught in the glaze to the stool;







shrinkage crack underneath the right front paw;





shrinkage lines to the stool.



Left facing: Generally good.

Flake to ground in front on left and flakes to shredded ground.





Slight rubbing to gilt.





RESTORATION. Stabilised and retouched cracks where poodles four feet join base.









Remodelled handle to basket.



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