Staffordshire Pearlware bocage 'courting' couple group

pre-Victorian, circa 1820. 5.1ins high, 4.3ins wide, 2.6ins depth. Staffordshire pearlware bocage figure which features a 'courting' couple in front of a bocage tree, seated on a circular base.



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







Open bottomed.



Book reference ,'People, Passions, Pastimes and Pleasures. Staffordshire figures 1810-1835', by Myrna Schkolne, page 66, figure 2.

Condition

CONDITION: Generally good. No restoration.

Two chips to bocage.



Small flakes to his hat,



her left foot



and leaves on bocage.





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