An ornate and very rare holy water stoup presented as a cross with a cherub supporter tending to a vase of flowers and a young child nearby.
The cross is black and sits above a striped vase with a floral display. An individually modelled cherub wearing a yellow floral sash and white gilded wings reaches up to it. Next to it is a child wearing a purple veil. Beneath the scene is a holy water stoup on three ornate legs.
The stoup is designed to be either free-standing or wall-mounted as there is a recessed hole in the back for a nail.
This figure is exceptionally decorative with an unusual degree of individually moulded and carefully coloured details - such as the cherub’s limbs and wings and the floral display.
The figure presents nicely but is offered in ‘as found’ condition. The cross has been off and reattached with an effort to paint over the crack. There is some small loss to the flowers in the base. There are firing flaws where the cherub’s wings join its body and where its leg joins the figure - although I do not think they have been repaired. There are some flakes of enamel loss to the black cross.
Despite these imperfections, this remains a very attractive, unusual, and extremely scarce figure - a fascinating example of Staffordshire holy water stoups.
Reference: Stephen Duckworth, Victorian Staffordshire Pottery Religious Figures, p. 133, fig. C.32
Height: 8.5”
Date: c. 1860s
Provenance: The Stephen Duckworth Collection
An ornate and very rare holy water stoup presented as a cross with a cherub supporter tending to a vase of flowers and a young child nearby.
The cross is black and sits above a striped vase with a floral display. An individually modelled cherub wearing a yellow floral sash and white gilded wings reaches up to it. Next to it is a child wearing a purple veil. Beneath the scene is a holy water stoup on three ornate legs.
The stoup is designed to be either free-standing or wall-mounted as there is a recessed hole in the back for a nail.
This figure is exceptionally decorative with an unusual degree of individually moulded and carefully coloured details - such as the cherub’s limbs and wings and the floral display.
The figure presents nicely but is offered in ‘as found’ condition. The cross has been off and reattached with an effort to paint over the crack. There is some small loss to the flowers in the base. There are firing flaws where the cherub’s wings join its body and where its leg joins the figure - although I do not think they have been repaired. There are some flakes of enamel loss to the black cross.
Despite these imperfections, this remains a very attractive, unusual, and extremely scarce figure - a fascinating example of Staffordshire holy water stoups.
Reference: Stephen Duckworth, Victorian Staffordshire Pottery Religious Figures, p. 133, fig. C.32
Height: 8.5”
Date: c. 1860s
Provenance: The Stephen Duckworth Collection
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