Staffordshire Pottery Pearlware stag bocage figure

pre-Victorian, circa 1820. 5ins high, 3.9ins wide, 2.4ins depth.

Staffordshire Pottery pearlware bocage figure which features a stag in front of a tree, recumbent on a scroll work base.

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

Condition

Good. No restoration. Some small chips and flakes to lower base edge.

A few chips to bocage leaves.

Small chip to lower end of both antlers.

Paint loss to stag's back.

KILN EFFECTS: a speck of kiln grit caught in the glaze to stag's body;

glaze defect to stag's back;

shrinkage crack under stag's neck;

small firing pit behind left ear tip.