An excellent and rare titled figure depicting the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott with his favourite dog, Maida, a cross between a Pyrenean Wolfdog and a Highland Deerhound.
Scott wears a swallow-tailed coat and trousers with a plaid over his left shoulder. He holds a book in his left hand. Maida sits at his right. The title ‘Sir Walter Scott’ is written in gilded cursive script beneath his feet.
This figure is of exceptional quality - beautifully modelled and decorated. It pairs with a similar plaid-clad figure of Robert Burns standing next to agricultural tools - a very rare pair to find together.
The figure is in excellent condition with no apparent damage or restoration (I cannot altogether rule out to the remote possibility of truly professional restoration, but cannot detect any). There is a firing flaw on his right leg. Two flakes to the shoes have been discreetly touched up, and there are some sparse flakes to the plaid.
Reference: P. D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures, p. H580, pl. 18, fig. 57
Height: 10.75”
Date: c. 1850
An excellent and rare titled figure depicting the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott with his favourite dog, Maida, a cross between a Pyrenean Wolfdog and a Highland Deerhound.
Scott wears a swallow-tailed coat and trousers with a plaid over his left shoulder. He holds a book in his left hand. Maida sits at his right. The title ‘Sir Walter Scott’ is written in gilded cursive script beneath his feet.
This figure is of exceptional quality - beautifully modelled and decorated. It pairs with a similar plaid-clad figure of Robert Burns standing next to agricultural tools - a very rare pair to find together.
The figure is in excellent condition with no apparent damage or restoration (I cannot altogether rule out to the remote possibility of truly professional restoration, but cannot detect any). There is a firing flaw on his right leg. Two flakes to the shoes have been discreetly touched up, and there are some sparse flakes to the plaid.
Reference: P. D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures, p. H580, pl. 18, fig. 57
Height: 10.75”
Date: c. 1850
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