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Fighting School Boys

 

Stock No: 001177

 

Height: 10 Inches / 25.5 cm

 

Reference: Pugh first edition, Page I 618, Plate 26, Fig 62

 

A rare and unusual original Victorian Staffordshire spill vase figure group in the form of two schoolboys fist fighting beneath a tree. The boys stand with their backs to a low fence, one boy recoiling from a blow received from the larger child, both wearing shirt and neck scarf, jacket, and long trousers. There are two discarded writing slates on the ground, c1860. In very good condition having minor professional restoration to nose chips and touches to overglaze enamel in places.