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93. Flight to and Return from Egypt |
Enamel-painted Figures
93.21a. Attributed to Patriotic Group.
93.27. An unusual bocage, and the berry clusters are suggestive of a Leather Leaf Group attribution, but I cannot be sure.
Underglaze-decorated Figures
Figures? It should be figure, because I can find just one. I believe most Flight and Return groups date from 1820. The dearth of examples that are decorated under the glaze or in the glaze reinforces that belief.
This group is from the stock of John Howard. You can also see it in H. A. B. Turner's A Collector's Guide to Staffordshire Pottery Figures, one of my favorite old books. I would bet this figure group was made by Tittensor, despite the lack of a mark. Note that it stands on the same base and has the same bocage as the Tittensor equestrian on this site. Turner points out that the group is "marked in blue under an unglazed base 'R. Wood. Flight into Egypt.'" Like Turner, I flatly didn't believe that Ralph Wood had anything to do with this group, and clearly that mark simply washed off because, by the time the group came into John's hands, it was no longer present. It is unusual to find a base that is unglazed beneath, and the absence of glaze in this case made it very easy for someone to add an inscription!
This group is from the stock of John Howard. You can also see it in H. A. B. Turner's A Collector's Guide to Staffordshire Pottery Figures, one of my favorite old books. I would bet this figure group was made by Tittensor, despite the lack of a mark. Note that it stands on the same base and has the same bocage as the Tittensor equestrian on this site. Turner points out that the group is "marked in blue under an unglazed base 'R. Wood. Flight into Egypt.'" Like Turner, I flatly didn't believe that Ralph Wood had anything to do with this group, and clearly that mark simply washed off because, by the time the group came into John's hands, it was no longer present. It is unusual to find a base that is unglazed beneath, and the absence of glaze in this case made it very easy for someone to add an inscription!
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