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25. Reading |
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Enamel-painted Figures
Figures Decorated with Underglaze Color or with Colored Glazes
Tittensor Figures
The reading figures below are impressed TITTENSOR on the reverse. As you see, the bocage leaves are one-sided (i.e. each leaf has not been paired back-to-back with another in the conventional way.) Interestingly, these eight-petalled bocage flowers are not found on any enamel-painted figures.
Tittensor also made this figure model (or, as best I know to date, only the model of the boy) decorated in enamel colors (see fig. 25.17). However, the enamel-painted figure has quite different bocage leaves and flowers. In the case of the enamel figure, the bocage flowers are twelve-petalled (six long petals and six short petals). I have recorded only two other enamel-painted Tittensor figures with bocages, and the bocages also have twelve-petalled flowers. This is a typical Dale flower! The marked Tittensor enamel figures exhibit other features suggestive of Dale---leading me to think that Dale may have acquired the Tittensor molds (complete with the Titensor name integral to them) and used the molds to make figures in the Dale style. Read more about Tittensor in volume 1.
Tittensor also made this figure model (or, as best I know to date, only the model of the boy) decorated in enamel colors (see fig. 25.17). However, the enamel-painted figure has quite different bocage leaves and flowers. In the case of the enamel figure, the bocage flowers are twelve-petalled (six long petals and six short petals). I have recorded only two other enamel-painted Tittensor figures with bocages, and the bocages also have twelve-petalled flowers. This is a typical Dale flower! The marked Tittensor enamel figures exhibit other features suggestive of Dale---leading me to think that Dale may have acquired the Tittensor molds (complete with the Titensor name integral to them) and used the molds to make figures in the Dale style. Read more about Tittensor in volume 1.
Other Figures
Courtesy Andrew Dando
Comment
I think the paucity of reading figures decorated in anything other than enamel colors is very telling. By the time the great mass-reading/literacy movement had gained steam in the first decades of the nineteenth century, enamels had become the standard decorating technique.
I think the paucity of reading figures decorated in anything other than enamel colors is very telling. By the time the great mass-reading/literacy movement had gained steam in the first decades of the nineteenth century, enamels had become the standard decorating technique.