A Pearlware Hay Making Girl

Stock No: 001827

Height:  6.5 Inches / 16.5 cm

Reference: Myrna Schkolne Staffordshire Figures 1780-1840 Vol 1, Page 223, Fig 28.14

Price: £475.00

A lovely pearlware figure of a girl standing beside a low tree holding a small wooden flagon. The female is in country dress, wearing a ribboned hat, shoulder scarf, laced corset, and skirt, she has an apron around her waist and holds a handkerchief and keg using her right hand and arm. The figure has wonderful enamel decoration with a good glaze, a fine quality example. The figure is from the “grey Base group” pottery, interestingly this item was made without a base. This figure was made without bocage in Staffordshire, England c1820. There is no damage, repairs, or restoration.