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Description:
Pair of Staffordshire Pottery Figural Groups Mounted as Table Lamps, England, c. 1860s, each depicting a romantic couple seated in a bower, mounted on a wooden base with brass single-socket fixture, overall ht. 29 in.
Estimate $200-300
crazing throughout both pieces, and fading to the skin color, general dirtiness, and small amounts of loss to the painted hair decoration. There is also a hairline crack on the reverse of one lamp
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