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155. Seasons |
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Enamel-painted Figures
155.21. 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."
155.122-123. 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.