A stunning and very moving figure depicting a guardian angel watching over two sleeping children, generally believed to be the Princess Royal and Prince of Wales.
This remarkable figure - straddling religious and royal interests - is beautifully decorated in bright enamels, cobalt blue, and - unusually - pink lustre which is rarely seen in Staffordshire figures of this period. Pink lustre outlines the angel’s wings, patterns the cobalt bedspread, outlines the regal bedframe and crown finials, and forms a thick band along to front of the base. The figure is also superbly crisp out of the mould. Textures in the angel’s face and the faces of the sleeping children, fabric fringes, the green carpet base, and the angel’s robe are excellent - one of the highest quality incarnations of this figure I have seen.
This figure is in excellent original condition with no repair. There is a small spot of rubbing to the angel’s nose and a stable firing flaw across the top of the (viewer’s) left side of the bed.
An exceptionally attractive and important figure.
Reference: Stephen Duckworth, Victorian Staffordshire Pottery Religious Figures, p. 141, fig. C.62
Height: 8.75”
Date: c. 1845
A stunning and very moving figure depicting a guardian angel watching over two sleeping children, generally believed to be the Princess Royal and Prince of Wales.
This remarkable figure - straddling religious and royal interests - is beautifully decorated in bright enamels, cobalt blue, and - unusually - pink lustre which is rarely seen in Staffordshire figures of this period. Pink lustre outlines the angel’s wings, patterns the cobalt bedspread, outlines the regal bedframe and crown finials, and forms a thick band along to front of the base. The figure is also superbly crisp out of the mould. Textures in the angel’s face and the faces of the sleeping children, fabric fringes, the green carpet base, and the angel’s robe are excellent - one of the highest quality incarnations of this figure I have seen.
This figure is in excellent original condition with no repair. There is a small spot of rubbing to the angel’s nose and a stable firing flaw across the top of the (viewer’s) left side of the bed.
An exceptionally attractive and important figure.
Reference: Stephen Duckworth, Victorian Staffordshire Pottery Religious Figures, p. 141, fig. C.62
Height: 8.75”
Date: c. 1845
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