Obadiah Sherratt Cow & Snake

Stock No: 001669

Height: 8 Inches / 20 cm

Reference:  Myrna Schkolne, Staffordshire Figures 1780-1840, Vol 3, Page 50, Fig 118.29

Price: £1650.00

A rare finely modelled red and white cow standing against an oak leaf-shaped bocage with flowers on an oval distinctive rainbow-colored base, often associated with the early 19th centaury Staffordshire potter, Obadiah Sherratt. He made these highly decorative cows in pairs, this right-hand example having an appealing and comical feature in the form of a snake which the potter shows attacking the cow’s hind leg. The cow seems unperturbed by the event lifting the leg out of reach whilst looking calmly down at the intruder. Made in Staffordshire, England c1820.

Current Condition: Very good, professional invisible restoration to one bocage branch and minor chips, the work executed by the ceramics conservators to the Royal family.