An attractive figure of a sailor.
He stands with his legs crossed, one hand on his hip and the other resting on an anchor. He wears a bonnet with a ribbon, a cobalt blue gilt-trimmed jacket, a green checked shirt with black necktie, a gilt-buckled belt, white trousers, and black shoes. The black anchor on which he leans sits on a rock (modelled front and back but undecorated). The base of the figure is trimmed with gilt. The figure has a hollow base.
The figure is in reasonable condition, presenting nicely but with some slight historic damage. There is an old small chip to the brim of the bonnet. There is a hairline crack running vertically through the gilded base where a chip has been non-professionally filled and stabilised. The fingertips of the sailor’s right hand have not taken well to the mould (possibly an indication of a well-used mould) and are sharp to the touch, but there does not appear to have been any damage as the sharp edge is glazed. There is a very thin firing flaw (visible only on the outside) running vertically from the base on the back of the figure but this appears to be stable. Such vulnerabilities are not unusual in figures with hollow bases and thin bodies.
These flaws notwithstanding, the figure presents well and is simply but pleasingly decorated.
Reference: P. D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures, p. C 296, pl. 84, fig. 247
Height: 7.75”
Date: c. 1850s-60s
Provenance: The Sheila Brooks Collection
An attractive figure of a sailor.
He stands with his legs crossed, one hand on his hip and the other resting on an anchor. He wears a bonnet with a ribbon, a cobalt blue gilt-trimmed jacket, a green checked shirt with black necktie, a gilt-buckled belt, white trousers, and black shoes. The black anchor on which he leans sits on a rock (modelled front and back but undecorated). The base of the figure is trimmed with gilt. The figure has a hollow base.
The figure is in reasonable condition, presenting nicely but with some slight historic damage. There is an old small chip to the brim of the bonnet. There is a hairline crack running vertically through the gilded base where a chip has been non-professionally filled and stabilised. The fingertips of the sailor’s right hand have not taken well to the mould (possibly an indication of a well-used mould) and are sharp to the touch, but there does not appear to have been any damage as the sharp edge is glazed. There is a very thin firing flaw (visible only on the outside) running vertically from the base on the back of the figure but this appears to be stable. Such vulnerabilities are not unusual in figures with hollow bases and thin bodies.
These flaws notwithstanding, the figure presents well and is simply but pleasingly decorated.
Reference: P. D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures, p. C 296, pl. 84, fig. 247
Height: 7.75”
Date: c. 1850s-60s
Provenance: The Sheila Brooks Collection
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