Salt Staffordshire Pearlware Pottery Sportman Figure

pre-Victorian, circa 1820. 6.9ins high, 4.7ins wide, 2.8ins depth. Salt Staffordshire Pottery pearlware bocage figure with a sporting theme

which features a gentleman holding a gun with his dog beside him, stood on an oval hollow base.

The piece is titled, 'SPORTS MAN' .

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

Maker's marks Salt molded ribbon.

Condition

CONDITION: Generally good.

Tight hairline to underside of hollow base.

A few minor chips to the bocage.

A few small flakes to the ground.

A few paint losses to the man's coat and hat.

KILN EFFECTS: touch mark to the ground;

small firing pit to the ground by man's right foot;

one flower absent on bocage tree, but overglazed indicating original manufacturing effect.

RESTORATION: Dog's tail and right front leg remodelled.

Two leaves of bocage remodelled.

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