Staffordshire Pearlware Piper with Dog Bocage Figure

pre-Victorian, circa 1820. 6.7ins high, 4.9ins wide, 2.4ins depth. Staffordshire Pottery pearlware bocage figure with a musical theme which features a boy playing a pipe. His dog by his side, stood on a shaped base.

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

 

Condition

CONDITION: Generally good. Small chips to boacge.

Chip to base edge, on the reverse.

Small flake to dog's ear;

shrinkage crack under left arm;

touch mark to her hands and knee.

RESTORATION. Two branches of the bocage/leaves (well) remodelled.

The other two, reglued and joins retouched.

 

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