A very fine and well-coloured Staffordshire figure titled ‘Highland Jessie’.
The figure depicts the apocryphal ‘Jessie Brown’ - a subject of much 19th century art and literature - who was reported to have rallied troops at the British Residency in India during the Siege of Lucknow, part of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, by telling them she could hear the pipes of the approaching rescue troops. There are several variations on this story, but Brown was almost certainly fictional.
This stirring figure shows Jessie Brown next to a pile of boxes and a large ewer next to a resting British soldier holding his rifle.
The figure is in excellent condition with no damage or restoration. There are some superficial firing flaws under the neck of the ewer and on the soldier’s neck but aside from this the figure is practically ‘as new’. There is some kiln grime in the glaze - particularly at the top of Jessie’s scarf - but this, again, is a hangover of the manufacturing process.
Reference: P. D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures, p. C 298, pl. 89B, fig. 265
Height: 8.5”
Date: c. 1857
A very fine and well-coloured Staffordshire figure titled ‘Highland Jessie’.
The figure depicts the apocryphal ‘Jessie Brown’ - a subject of much 19th century art and literature - who was reported to have rallied troops at the British Residency in India during the Siege of Lucknow, part of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, by telling them she could hear the pipes of the approaching rescue troops. There are several variations on this story, but Brown was almost certainly fictional.
This stirring figure shows Jessie Brown next to a pile of boxes and a large ewer next to a resting British soldier holding his rifle.
The figure is in excellent condition with no damage or restoration. There are some superficial firing flaws under the neck of the ewer and on the soldier’s neck but aside from this the figure is practically ‘as new’. There is some kiln grime in the glaze - particularly at the top of Jessie’s scarf - but this, again, is a hangover of the manufacturing process.
Reference: P. D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures, p. C 298, pl. 89B, fig. 265
Height: 8.5”
Date: c. 1857
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