Walton Staffordshire Pearlware cow & calf bocage figure

pre-Victorian, circa 1820. 5.9ins high, 4.1ins wide, 2.8ins depth. Walton Staffordshire pearlware bocage figure with a pastoral theme which features a cow with a calf, recumbent on an oval base. Black and white version.







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

Open bottomed. Maker's marks Walton molded ribbon.





Book reference ,'People, Passions, Pastimes and Pleasures. Staffordshire figures 1810-1835', by Myrna Schkolne, page 293

Condition

Good. A few tiny flakes to bocage.







KILN EFFECTS: two touch marks to the base;





tiny glaze pops to the cow's back;



shrinkage line to the inside of the cow's right back leg.



RESTORATION: Two filled chips to bocage.









Filled chip to cow's left horn. Cow's left ear remodelled.





Retouched flakes to bocage.






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