Figure
ca.1780 (made)
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Figure of a shepherdess, standing with a lamb in her left arm, her right holding out her dress, which is edged with brown and striped with green and with yellow outlined in brown dots. Her hat is brown and she stands on a green mound base.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Earthenware, moulded and painted with coloured glazes. |
Brief description | Figure, shepherdess, earthenware, Staffordshire, possibly by a member of the Wood family, ca.1780 |
Physical description | Figure of a shepherdess, standing with a lamb in her left arm, her right holding out her dress, which is edged with brown and striped with green and with yellow outlined in brown dots. Her hat is brown and she stands on a green mound base. |
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Production type | Mass produced |
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Credit line | Part of the Arthur James collection bequeathed by his wife |
Object history | Bequeathed by Mrs Arthur James |
Production | see Halfpenny, who suggests that this figure is typical of those made by members of the Wood family of Burslem but that documentary references do not have sufficient detail to identify specific models and this figure cannot be attributed to a particular Wood with any degree of confidence. |
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Bibliographic reference | Halfpenny, Pat, English Earthenware Figures: 1740-1840 (Antique Collectors' Club: 1995), p. 61 & p.73.
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Other number | 1948/1301 - RF number |
Collection | |
Accession number | C.60-1948 |
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Record created | April 15, 2009 |
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