Pair Staffordshire children with dogs & kennels spills

Victorian, circa 1860. Tallest is 7.5ins high, 5.5ins wide, 2.8ins depth. Pair of Staffordshire spill vases with a childhood theme which feature a boy and a girl seated in trees next to kennels with spaniels below, resting on an oval base. Dull gilt base line and embellishment.

Flatback, decorated mainly to the front.

Condition

Female: Generally good. No restoration. Some flakes to rim of spill;

black hair on girl flaked off and faded.

Some rubbing to gilt.

Bruise to the underside;

firing cracks to the underside;

a few specks of kiln soot caught in the glaze to the front and reverse;

a couple of areas of staining to the reverse.

Male: Generally good. No restoration. Black hair on boy flaked off and faded.

Slight rubbing to gilt.

KILN EFFECTS: a few specks of kiln soot caught in the glaze to the front;

notable crazing to the front and reverse;

firing crack to the underside.

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