27. Shepherds and Shepherdesses - Staffordshire Figures, 1780-1840: supplementary archive

27. Shepherds & Shepherdesses

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Remember that shepherd musicians are in 1:26.

Enamel-painted Figures

27.17a. See 27.17 for the similar boy. This pair is highly likely to also be by "Sherratt."

27.42. This pair is in the book, but her raised hand was incorrectly restored--since redone!

27.48a. Attributed to Patriotic Group. Like 27.48 and with a bocage that occurs on small Patriotic Group figures.

27.38a. Attributed to Daisy Group and companion to shepherdess in 27.38.

27.50a. I am guessing that this is the companion shepherdess to 27.50. They have the same facial features.

27.50b. Similar to 27.50a but probably made by one of the Scottish East Coast pot banks.

27.50c. Reverse of previous figure.

27.50d. Shepherd, companion to 105a. Probably made by one of the Scottish East Coast pot banks.

27.50e. Reverse of 27.50d.

27.50f. Courtesy Xupes.

27.50g. Courtesy Xupes.

27.65a. Attributed to Tunstall Group. Like 27.65 but on a different and very pretty base.

27.101a. I was excited to find this, from the same pot bank as figures 27.200-101. Note the bocage similarities as well as the leaf on the sheep's back. Vol. 4 shows two cherubs on this base and with this bocage. This figure is also in the Addendum to Vol. 4.

27.103a. Attributed to Leather Leaf Group. The characteristic flowers establish the attribution.

27.144a. Like 27.142 and 27.144. What unusual painting. When have you seen a base painted like this??

27.144b. A particularly prettily decorated version of this figure. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis.

27.144.d. Courtesy Andrew Dando.

26.170. Titled "Hay Maker" but clearly is a shepherdess. Attributed to Ralph Wood. This figure is only otherwise recorded in colored glazes, see below. Courtesy Richard Smith.

27.175a. Courtesy Clars.

27.200. A barely viewable image, but I think this is a model we haven't seen yet. The shepherdess seems to be seated, and the flowers on the bocage are specific to the Patriotic Group.

26.201.Companion to 26.202.

27.202. See 26.48 and on for musician spills in same manner.

26.203. Detail of 26.202.

26.204. Detail of 26.202.

26.204. Reverse of 26.202.

Underglaze-decorated Figures

Marked Tittensor Figures

Back of previous figure with TITTENSOR impressed not once but three times!!!

This group is just like the preceding example and I believe it has to be marked TITTENSOR too. The colors are more typical for a Northeast or Scottish potbank. As other evidence suggests Tittensor's molds passed on in the trade, perhaps this is such a case.

Impressed TITTENSOR. (c) Brighton and Hove Museums.

Impressed TITTENSOR. Wow! Courtesy the Atlanta Historical Society.

Impressed "TITTENSOR". (c) Bonhams.

Courtesy Paul Tittensor at tittensor.com.

In the Tyne and Wear Museums. Image from www.tittensor.com.

Courtesy John Howard

Courtesy John Howard

From “Staffordshire Pottery. The Tribal Art of England,” Anthony Oliver, Heinemann 1981.

Tittensor???

The impressive spill holder below is Tittensoresque in its whimsical weirdness, but I don't believe it was made by Tittensor. The bocage leaves and flowers are not of forms that occur on marked Tittensor examples. I have handled it and think it a tad too refined for Tittensor. Still an amazing treasure!

Courtesy John Howard

Courtesy John Howard

Other Underglaze-decorated Figures

Impressed "T. SMITH" and made by Theophilus Smith. Courtesy Roger Deville.

Like the enamel figure in 27.140 and thereafter but here decorated under the glaze.

Like the enamel figure in 27.140 and thereafter but here decorated under the glaze. Courtesy John Howard.

Like the enamel figure in 27.140 and thereafter but here decorated under the glaze. (c) Bonhams.

Like the enamel figure in 27.140 and thereafter but here decorated under the glaze and with a round base.

Same model as in 27.142 and 144. Probably a companion model to the previous figure but decorated in a different palette.

Like the pair in 27.144 and a base as on 27.141...but with bocages and in under-glaze colors. Courtesy Gorringes.

On the same lines as 27.135, but many of the molds are quite different.

Courtesy Aurea Carter.

Courtesy John Howard.

Courtesy Andrew Dando.

Courtesy John Howard.

On the same lines as 27.135, but many of the molds are quite different. (c) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

The vases to the left and right of this picture are not otherwise recorded. I think they are shepherds, but I wouldn't want to bet on it. (c) Tennants

Lke 27.126 and 127 but decorated in Impressed "NEALE & Co." Vase lacking. (c) Bonhams.

H: 10.5". Courtesy Andrew Dando.

Courtesy Fairfield Auctions.

Figures from these molds occur decorated in colored glazes and are thought to have been made by Ralph Wood. Courtesy Andrew Dando.

Courtesy Jeffrey Evans.

Like previous figure but on a different base.

I think the figures are holding sheep! Courtesy Paul Vandkar.

The companion figure is a woman with a basket and dog (perhaps a sheep dog) and it is shown in Vol.1, chapter 30 on this site. Courtesy Jeffrey Evans.

Yorkshire Figures

See cows in much the same style in 1: 28 (Farm workers).

Lest this lady have an identity crisis, "Shepardefs" is painted on the base.

Figure Decorated with Colored Glaze

Attributed to Ralph Wood. Like 27.131 titled Spanish Shepherd. (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Probably made by Ralph Wood. Companion to the following figure. (c) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Probably made by Ralph Wood. Companion to the previous figure. (c) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Probably made by Ralph Wood.

Probably made by Ralph Wood. (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Probably made by Ralph Wood. The animal is intended, I think, to be a sheep. Look at the following example for clarification. (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Probably made by Ralph Wood. From the same molds as the previous figure, but the animal here is clearly a sheep. (c) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Courtesy Victorian and Albert Museum, London. See above for same figure decorated in underglaze colors.

Courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Attributed to Ralph Wood. This small shepherdess is uncommon. See above for an enamel-painted example by Ralph Wood. )c) Skinner, Inc.

Lke 27.126 and 127 but decorated in colored glaze. Impressed "NEALE & Co." Vase lacking. (c) Bonhams.

Courtesy Aurea Carter

The woman is a shepherdess and is from molds used for 27.129. A similar splendid pair has been languishing in the Metropolitan Museum for many decades, ignored. Image taken from Partridge, "Mr. Frank Partridge's Collection."