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Figure

ca.1780 (made)
Place of origin

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

Category
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.7cm
converted from registers
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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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.
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Halfpenny, Pat, English Earthenware Figures: 1740-1840 (Antique Collectors' Club: 1995), p. 61 & p.73.
Other number
1948/1301 - RF number
Collection
Accession number
C.60-1948

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Record createdApril 15, 2009
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