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STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERY FIGURES Early 19th century & Victorian Flat-back

Pottery Staffordshire figures from the 19th century are in the folk art tradition. These cottage figures were usually primitively potted and and brightly colored in a restricted primary palette and were found on the mantles, hearths and shelves of homes. They reflected the interests and sentiments of the period... farm animals, country scenes, hunters and their animals and quarry. In the later Victorian period the range became wider as it was influenced by the new-sheets of the time and included theatrical performers, popular folk heroes, Royalty, visiting dignitaries, murderers, sportsmen and, of course, the ever popular comfort dogs and domestic animals. Many were fashioned as spill vases to hold wooden or paper"spills" used to transfer fire from the hearth to candle, oil lamp and tobacco pipe. The early figures were molded in the round and often supported by bocage (a tree with leaves). The later Victorian figures were more simply molded with the decoration only on the front side which led to the name of "flat-back".

For wares see British Pottery: British Pottery 18th century

Stock#	Item description	Date	Maker	Price
40194	PAIR OF DOGS, 9-1/2"high, the King Charles' Spaniel or "Comfort" dogs ,white with iron red marking, black collar, chain & locket. Unmarked. *minor losses enamel; left figure has an opened mold joint that shows as crack;right figure has chip to base.	c.1860	Staffordshire	$645.00
40286	FIGURE OF A LADY ARCHER. 6-1/2"high, in bright colors. Elegantly dressed she stands by a straw butt on a mound base with an ornate scroll. She holds a bow & arrow has her quiver on her back. Unmarked. * Professional restoration to neck and touch up to enamel. One small chip to footrim,	1815-1825	Staffordshire	$475.00
SOLD 40165	BOCAGE FIGURE OF A GARDENER, 5"high. Leaning on his spade andd holding a pot of flowers. He stands on a grassy mound and is backed by a bocage of leaves and flowers. Scroll with impressed name,"WALTON" *Restoration to left arm and one sction of bocage reglued	1815-1825	WALTON Staffordshire	SOLD
SOLD 40164	BOCAGE FIGURE OF A BOY WITH NEST 5-1/2"h, The Boy straddles a stream. He is holding a bird in his left hand and a birdnest with young birds in his right while another bird watches from the bocage behind his figure. Scroll with molded name, "WALTON" *Section of bocage reglued.Loss to a bocage leaf and loss to grass on base.	1815-1825	WALTON Staffordshire	SOLD
40174	BOCAGE FIGURE OF A GENTLEMAN, 4-1/2"high. Elegant dressed and posed he stands by his dog in front of a bocage. Unmarked.	1815-1825	Staffordshire	$325.00
24168	FIGURE OF A LODGED STAG, 7" high. Enoch Wood type . On a grassy mound. *restoration to antlers and ear	1815-1830	Staffordshire	$475.00
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