Staffordshire Pearlware Double Deer Park Spill Vase, Circa 1820-30

Remarkable Staffordshire Pearlware Double Deer Park Spill Vase Pottery Group.

Circa 1820-30.

This remarkable and rare large pearlware figure depicts two large figures of a stag and doe facing each other either side of the central tree trunk triple spill vase.  

A young man playing a horn, with sheet music on his lap, sits in a nook of the tree trunk, his pink hat resting on a short branch above him and at his feet sits his dog on its hindquarters and two small lambs.

Dimensions: 10 inches high x 15 inches wide x 5 inches deep.

Provenance:
With Oliver-Sutton Antiques, London (old paper label).

Reference: 

Staffordshire figures, 1780-1840, Animals, Animal Performers, Dandies & Murder, Volume 3, Myrna Schkolne, Page 67, Figure 119.2 (maker presently unidentified).

People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures: Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835, Myrna Schkolne, Page 211, for a similar group from the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.

Also a very similar group was sold at Doyle New York, Important English and continental Furniture & Decorations, January 23 and 24, 2008, Lot 1410-Staffordshire Earthenware Deer Group Spill Vase Early 19th century- Depicting a shepherd playing a horn and seated at the base of a tree-form vase flanked by deer, on a molded oval base. Height 10 inches (25.4 cm), width 15 inches (38 cm).
Sold for $17,500.

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This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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