A rare monumental pair of figures depicting Jesus Christ and the Woman of Samaria as told in the Gospel of John, chapter 4.
This matched pair is decorated with pale flesh, russet hair, pink robes, and gilt highlights. This is a highly desirable and impressive pair of religious figures.
The pair is in good condition and are well matched. The most notable flaw is superficial wear down to the clay body of the woman’s nose. She exhibits signs of other shallow rubbing and kiln soot in the glaze. Christ exhibits long firing flaws down the joins of the two halves of the press mould as is common on larger figures, but this is stable and not visible on the front of the figure. There are some patches of rubbing down to the clay body to the back of Christ.
Reference: Stephen Duckworth, Victorian Staffordshire Pottery Religious Figures, p. 112, figs. B.27a and B.28a
Height: 17”
Date: c. 1870s
Provenance: The Stephen Duckworth Collection
A rare monumental pair of figures depicting Jesus Christ and the Woman of Samaria as told in the Gospel of John, chapter 4.
This matched pair is decorated with pale flesh, russet hair, pink robes, and gilt highlights. This is a highly desirable and impressive pair of religious figures.
The pair is in good condition and are well matched. The most notable flaw is superficial wear down to the clay body of the woman’s nose. She exhibits signs of other shallow rubbing and kiln soot in the glaze. Christ exhibits long firing flaws down the joins of the two halves of the press mould as is common on larger figures, but this is stable and not visible on the front of the figure. There are some patches of rubbing down to the clay body to the back of Christ.
Reference: Stephen Duckworth, Victorian Staffordshire Pottery Religious Figures, p. 112, figs. B.27a and B.28a
Height: 17”
Date: c. 1870s
Provenance: The Stephen Duckworth Collection
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