A very rare and endearing figure depicting the Virgin Mary with the infant Christ in her arms.
Mary wears a flowing and beautifully modelled white rob with gilt highlights. She shares her hood with the partially swaddled Christ child.
The modelling is excellent - detailed and crisp - and the gilt is fresh and vivid. Likewise, the flesh tones of the faces are well painted and saturated. The glaze is thick and syrupy though there are some deep (albeit clean) lines of crazing over Christ’s legs and it seems that a firing flaw is present under the glaze across His lower body.
Reference: Stephen Duckworth, Victorian Staffordshire Pottery Religious Figures, p.106, fig. B.7
Height: 7.25”
Date: c. 1870s
Provenance: The Stephen Duckworth Collection
A very rare and endearing figure depicting the Virgin Mary with the infant Christ in her arms.
Mary wears a flowing and beautifully modelled white rob with gilt highlights. She shares her hood with the partially swaddled Christ child.
The modelling is excellent - detailed and crisp - and the gilt is fresh and vivid. Likewise, the flesh tones of the faces are well painted and saturated. The glaze is thick and syrupy though there are some deep (albeit clean) lines of crazing over Christ’s legs and it seems that a firing flaw is present under the glaze across His lower body.
Reference: Stephen Duckworth, Victorian Staffordshire Pottery Religious Figures, p.106, fig. B.7
Height: 7.25”
Date: c. 1870s
Provenance: The Stephen Duckworth Collection
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