Shepherd

Staffordshire

About 1760

  • Titles Shepherd (Descriptive)
  • Artist Staffordshire, England
  • Medium salt-glazed stoneware
  • Dimensions 5 × 1 3/4 × 1 3/4 in. (12.7 × 4.4 × 4.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.180.1998
  • Work Type figure
  • Classification Sculpture

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