St Peter with Bocage

 

Stock No: 000390

 

Height: 7.25 Inches / 18 cm

 

Reference: Stephen Duckworth Victorian Staffordshire Pottery Religious Figures (Stories on the Mantelpiece), Page 58, Fig 5.26

 

Price: £495.00

 

A fine early Victorian figure of St Peter. This figure is unusual as it is found with a bocage. Saint Peter can be seen kneeling barefooted on a slab of rock in prayer, wearing a long robe and over-cloak, to his right is a cockerel upon a tree stump against which a large book (Bible) rests.