A RARE STAFFORDSHIRE LEAD-GLAZED CREAM-COLORED EARTHENWARE ARBOR GROUP CIRCA 1765

modelled as two fashionably dressed women seated on a narrow bench within a green-glazed semi-circular arbor, a bird with wings folded perched atop the domed roof.

Jonathan Horne, London, illustrated in A Collection of Early English Pottery, part XIX, no. 566

There are two haircracks at the front edge of the base. The first starts below the right foot of the lady on the left, running across the base and half-way up the side of the arbor wall behind her. The second running from nearly the same point at the front across the base towards the lady on the right, forking just above the edge of the base at the back and continuing in one direction half-way up the side and in the other direction for about 1 1/2 inches along the edge of the base, curving up into the side for another inch. The haircracks have been stabilised with a museum type restoration and are not particualry disfiguring.
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