13th Jan, 2023 9:30 GMT/BST

Country House

 
  Lot 81
 

81

A Prattware Allegorical Figure of Faith, circa 1790, as a classical maiden on mound base
16.5cm
Six Various Similar Figures, representing the Four Seasons (7)

Sold for £220
Estimated at £120 - £180


 

Faith - heavy chipping around the rim of the base, crazed.

Boy with top hat - manufacturing blemishes mainly to the hat, section of loss to the corner of the base with associated crack. Another base crack and a filled section to the left ankle. Crazed.

Girl with basket - crazed. Glaze wear and scratches. Sp,e glaze flakes at the base.

Classical girl with loin cloth - crazed. Some chipping around the base.

Boy with yellow coat - section re glued to the base. Some other base chips.

Boy with wheatsheaf - crazed, glaze flakes.

Girl with blue spotted dress - crazed and with glaze flakes.

 


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Auction: Country House, 13th Jan, 2023

The Country House Sales offer an appealing mix of traditional antiques and curiosities, good furnishing pieces and specialist collectors’ items. The sales incorporate the contents of important properties and private collections as well as individually consigned lots redolent of the English Country House.

Part I (Day One) (Lots 1- 440): Glass, Ceramics, Oriental and Works of Art 

Part II (Day Two) (Lots 500-798): Carpets, Clocks and Furniture 

Part III (Day Two) (Lots 1000-1185): Pictures and Garden Furniture and Statuary 

 

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Tuesday 10th January - Thursday 12th January 10am-4pm, Friday 13th January 10am-4pm (for Day Two of the sale only), and the morning of the sale from 8am

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