Pair Staffordshire Pearlware child with basket figures

pre-Victorian, circa 1820. Tallest is 5ins high, 3.9ins wide, 1.9ins depth.

Pair of Staffordshire Pottery pearlware bocage figures with a childhood theme which feature a child in front of a bocage tree, holding a basket of flowers, seated on a rectangular base.

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

Vent hole to the underside.

Maker's marks to the underside.

Condition

Right facing: Generally good. Tiny chip to headdress.

Flake to underside base edge and a few tiny flakes to bocage leaves.

A few paint loss to base line at reverse.

KILN EFFECTS: flecks of stray coloured glaze to the base corner and left hand.

RESTORATION. A few retouched chips to bocage, which is mostly in good original condition.

Retouched chip to base front.

Girls head and bocage trunk reglued and joins retouched.

Left facing: Good. No restoration. Flakes to underside base edge and a few small flakes to bocage leaves.

KILN EFFECTS: kiln soot caught in the glaze;touch mark to chest;

a few specks of kiln detritus caught in the glaze.

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