Plate

Possibly Ridgway

About 1820-1825

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Soft-paste porcelain figure of a so-called "Mansion House Dwarf" or "Dwarf Crier" standing in full figure on a round, grassy base and wearing black shoes with pink ribbons, a striped pantaloons with floral doublet and pink sleeves, with gilded highlights, holding a staff in his left hand, with large brown mustache and wearing a tall conical hat with narrow brim highlighted in gold and with a black ribbon, the top of the hat has a piece of newsprint with advertisements.
Tall creamware beer jug, Keith Murray shape 3844, with yellow matte straw glaze, slightly flared at the base and decorated with a series of six raised bands running horizontally around the body, with small spout and long ear-shaped handle.
Plain drawer pull
D-shaped bulb pot of modified bombé form with gilded bands at top and bottom and repeating pattern of gold against white. In the middle a hand-painted landscape in monochrome purple against a green base. Landscape with river scene, trees, men fishing at a gushing water fall, above this an antique temple, in the distance cows in a pasture and people.