Staffordshire Figures, 1780-1840: Supplementary Archive
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108. Tithe Pig


Enamel-painted Figures

108.41. I suspect this bocage may be a Patriotic Group bocage, but I am far from certain. Note also the cut-outs in the base.
108.42. Attributed to "Patriotic Group." Note the unique vicar. Vicars of this form are otherwise only found in christening and wedding groups.
108.43. Courtesy Whitehall Antiques, North Carolina.

New Figure Forms


These figures are all very rare, and the enamel-painted vicar (shown last)  is the only enamel-painted one I can trace. Did Ralph Wood make some of them? Hard to say with conviction. The modeling is of a high standard, so it is possible--even probably-- that they are his work.  

The Farmer's Wife.
The first figure  and the second are both decorated in colored glazes and modeled in the style of Ralph Wood. A large babe, is that not? The third figure is very different and is, I think, decorated under the glaze. It is not of the caliber of Ralph Wood figures.
antique staffordshire pottery, running glazes, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood
Metropolitan Museum, NY.
antique staffordshire pottery, Pratt ware, underglaze, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood
antique staffordshire pottery, running glazes, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood
From "Mr. Frank Partridge's Collection of Ralph Wood"
antique staffordshire pottery, Pratt ware, underglaze, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood
The Vicar
These two examples, very much in the manner of Ralph Wood, are in colored glazes. Both are impressed on the side "I WILL HAVE NO CHILD THO THE X PIG".  
antique staffordshire pottery, running glazes, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood
The Metropolitan Museum, NY.
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antique staffordshire pottery, running glazes, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood
From the Captain Price Collection
The vicar below is similarly impressed on the side. This time, it is decorated in enamel colors, and the decoration of the base and plinth alongside the vicar is not incompatible with a Ralph Wood attribution. 
antique staffordshire pottery, Pratt ware, I will have no child tho the pig, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood
108.43. From the Captain Price Collection.
The vicar below  has been left in the white, with just the eyes picked out in color. There is no impressed wording. The figure may originally have had a removable crown to the hat. I suspect all the crowns on these figures are removable because the figure is also found as a jug. Courtesy Bob Moores.
antique staffordshire pottery, running glazes, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood
antique staffordshire pottery, running glazes, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood
antique staffordshire pottery, running glazes, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood
The vicar below is decorated under the glaze and uses different molds for the raised arm. Again, it is impressed on the side with the wording found on the first jugs. It seems cruder than the other examples shown here, but that may be because the photo is poor.
antique staffordshire pottery, Pratt ware, underglaze, Ralph Wood figure, tithe pig vicar, pearlware figure, Myrna Schkolne, Rallph Wood

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