Staffordshire Pottery Pearlware stag bocage figure

Object Description

Staffordshire Pottery pearlware bocage figure which features a stag in front of a tree, recumbent on a scroll work base. Decorated ‘in the round’ – decoration to front and reverse.

Object Condition

Good. No restoration. Some small chips and flakes to lower base edge. A few chips to bocage leaves. Small chip to lower end of both antlers. Paint loss to stag’s back. KILN EFFECTS: a speck of kiln grit caught in the glaze to stag’s body; glaze defect to stag’s back; shrinkage crack under stag’s neck; small firing pit behind left ear tip.

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