24. Gardening

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Figure of people holding flowers are included in this chapter.
See Vol. 4, chapter 154 for male gardeners emblematic of Earth.
See Vol. 4, chapter 153 for ladies with flowers emblematic of Spring.

Enamel-painted Figures

24.4a. A better example of the three-leaflet bocage shown on the damaged figure in 24.4. Courtesy Tennants.

24.8a. Attributed to Leather Leaf Group. Like the gentleman in 24.8 but made without a bocage. Courtesy Martyn Edgell.

24.18a. Like 24.16 -18 but possibly from another pot bank.

24.19a. Attributed to Blue Group.

24.20a. Like 24.20 but without a single "Sherratt" feature and probably made by some unidentified pot bank. Courtesy Aurea Carter.

24.20a. Attributed to "Sherratt" and like the pair in 24.20 but with different bocage flowers. "Sherratt"sometimes used these clusters of three flowers, molded in one piece.

24.22a. Like 24.22 but with pink luster decoration.

24.34a. This gardener is the same model as that in figures 23.33 and 24.34, but the bocage and base are different. Attribution is not possible.

26.49b. Companion to the male figure in 24.47-49. From the same pot bank but with a different bocage. Courtesy Andrew Dando.

24.49a. Companion to the male figure in 24.47-49. Courtesy Nathan Lindrop.

24.59a. From the same molds as 24.58 and 24.59. Probably also made by Dudson. Courtesy Hansons.

26.66a. Impressed HALL. Like some of the other Hall lady gardeners shown from 24.66 but with different decoration on the base. Courtesy Frost Antiques.

24.97b. Like the lady in 24.97a but with different bocage flowers.

24.84a. Attributed to Tunstall Group and on another typical Tunstall base.

24.87a. Possibly the Tunstall Group. Courtesy Dee Atkinson Harris Auctions.

24.92a. Like 24.92 but with another typical Enoch Wood bocage form. Courtesy Mitchells Auctions.

24.95a. Companion to 24.95.

24.97a. This lady is the companion figure to the male in 24.97. Here we have a pair.

24.101a.

24.101b. Courtesy Mears and Boyer.

24.101b. Courtesy Andrew Dando.

24.101c. Companion to previous figure, 24.101b. Courtesy PFTP Antique Sales.

24.107a. This lady gardener derives from the Ralph Wood model but the head is different.

24.120a. Like 24.119 and 24.120 but both titled Gardener. Attributed to Ralph Wood.

24.108a. Like 24.108 but the base is painted brown.

24.121a. Attributed to Dudson. Like the gardener lady in 24.121 (after the Ralph Wood model). Dudson favored brown bases. Courtesy Aurea Carter.

24.127a. Courtesy Hansons.

24. 130a. With the same bocage leaves as 24.128 and 24.130 but made without a square base.

24.128a. Courtesy eBay seller secondglancethriftexchange.

24.145. Attributed to Dale. The only Dale gardener we have found. The floral sprig establishes the attribution, and the twelve-petalled bocage flowers support it. Nice find!

24.107b. I suspect this, like 24.107a, is perhaps from the same molds as the girl in 24.107 but atop a square base. Courtesy eBay seller debbier7414.

24.139a. Marked "Wood" beneath. Colors on the mound are in a typical Ralph Wood palette. A line is painted on one side of the base only.

24.139b. Base of previous figure with "Wood" mark.

24.135a. At last, I have identified the intended companion to this little lady. Courtesy Nathan Lindrop.

24.140a. Bocage restored. Courtesy eBay seller paplelaneart.

24.141. Attributed to Enoch Wood/Wood & Caldwell. Probably a gardener's mate, and the model is very like some similar Ralph Wood models. Courtesy John Mills.

24.142. This lady holding a flower and her companion exhibit a feature that I have only otherwise seen on figures attributable to Ralph Wood: the line painted on the base bands three sides only. However, in the absence of other Wood attributes, I cannot make an attribution. Courtesy Hansons.

24.143. Reverse of previous pair. Courtesy Hansons.

24.144. A gardener with obvious condition issues but notable for the unusual base. Courtesy eBay seller my-country-house.

24.145. Courtesy Malcolm Trundley.

24.146. Impressed I. DALE BURSLEM and made by John Dale. See following image.

24.147. Reverse of figure in previous image, made by John Dale.

24.77a. Like 24.77, this figure is attributed to the Grey Base Group but this example was made with a bocage. See the make figure under Vendors on this site for a companion male figure with bocage. Courtesy Stamford Auctions.

Figures Decorated with Underglaze Colors or with Colored Glaze

***Pratt watch stands with a lady holding flowers are on this site in Vol. 4, chapter 199, Miscellaneous Figures.

Same model as 24.22 but no enamels this time.

Courtesy Millea Bros.

Same model as 24.21 and attributed by the V&A to the Leeds Pottery. (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

I am not sure if these are intended to be gardeners. Note the similarities shared with the following vase. Also, another similar example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Courtesy Bellman's Auctioneers,

A weirdly wondrous vase with no enamel painted counterpart recorded...yet. I think he may be a gardener. Uses many of the same molds used in the previous example.

Like the previous vase but this time the gentleman is definitely a gardener of sorts (he holds a spade) and a lion is in the foreground.(c) Brighton and Hove Museums.

Same model as 24.108 and 24.109, but here decorated in underglaze rather than enamel colors.

Courtesy Jeffrey Evans.

Attributed to Ralph Wood. Like 24.110 but in colored glazes. (c) Bonhams.

Probably made by Ralph Wood. This figure has no enamel painted counterpart. (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Courtesy Skinner, Inc.

Christie's South Kensington June 101993. A gardener, I think.

Courtesy Andrew Dando.

Possibly representing one of the Four Seasons and, for that reason, shown also in chapter 155 on this site. Courtesy John Howard.

Courtesy Copake Auctions

Courtesy Christie's South Kensington, April 8 1999, lot 31.

Courtesy Tennants

Like the previous pair but with a floral motif on the bases. Courtesy Sworders.

Perhaps made in Scotland, Courtesy George Haggarty.

Restoration at tip of trunk, so perhaps there was once a bocage. Courtesy Hansons.

Reverse of previous figure. Courtesy Hansons.

Courtesy Burstow and Hewettt.

Courtesy Tennants.

Pratt figures like those shown above alongside clocks also occur alongside sheep and cows. Those with cows are illustrated in the chapter on farm workers (Vol. 1, chap 28); those with sheep are illustrated with other shepherds (Vol 1, chap 27). Does that seem odd to you? If so, try logically dividing figures into book chapters!!