STAFFORDSHIRE LEAD-GLAZED CREAM-COLORED EARTHENWARE GROUP OF LOVERS CIRCA 1765

Jonathan Horne Antiques, Ltd., London.

Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, part XVIII, 1998, no. 522.

There is well done restoration to the end of the base beneath the seated man, the overspray extending from about midpoint at the back to beneath his foot at the front. His leg is restored above the knee and there is overspray covering some restoration to his right arm and extending over her hand. There is a further area of restoration to her skirt, covering a crack running up from the base between her legs and ending beneath her waist.
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A group of the same model was sold at Christie's, London, March 18, 1985, lot 35, and is illustrated in Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840, p. 36 and in Leslie B. Grigsby, English Pottery 1650-1800, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, p. 474, pl. 304. Another similar example was sold at Christie's, London, May 19, 1980, lot 18.