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155. Seasons |
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Enamel-painted Figures
155.23. The figures beneath are all marked "LEEDS POTTERY." They were bought from a London dealer--in other words, at a top price--in 1947 for GBP30 and are taken from Peter Walton's "Creamware and Other English Pottery at Temple Newsam, Leeds."
155.124. The two figures below are the only other Leeds Pottery Seasons known to me. She is marked, he is not. For additional info, see http://www.mystaffordshirefigures.com/blog/seasonal-surprises
Undecorated Figures, and Figures Decorated with Underglaze Colors or with Colored Glazes
Basalt Figures
Impressed WEDGWOOD and made by Josiah Wedgwood. Courtesy Bonhams Skinner[
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Like the Neale figure of Summer but impressed WEDGWOOD beneath. Perhaps Ralph Wedgwood. Courtesy Robert Carde.
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And also...
A set of English buff-coloured stoneware figures emblematic of The Four Seasons, circa 1815, perhaps Herculaneum, 25cm high and smaller, one with pen inscription 832 HSM Goadby Hall. Goadby Hall is a seventeenth-century manor house (largely re-modelled in the mid-eighteenth century) that was once part of the estate of the Dukes of Rutland and occupied by junior members of the Manners family
Courtesy Aurea Carter.
Porcelaneous figures of a high quality representing Summer and Autumn. Puzzling not to have seen these in pearlware, and I have not seen others in this set.
Courtesy John Howard
Porcelaneous Seasons of a well-known form found in pottery.
Courtesy Strawsers.