Pearlware Allegorical Figure of Summer

Description:

Pearlware Allegorical Figure of Summer, England, c. 1785-95, probably Staffordshire and attributed to Neale and Co., overglaze polychrome enamel decorated, modeled as a standing figure of a male youth supporting a sheaf of grain and holding a sickle, standing on a rococo mound set atop a stepped square base, impressed title, ht. 5 3/8 in.

Literature: Identical illustrated in Neale Pottery and Porcelain, by Edwards, illus. 154.
Estimate $400-600

Glaze roughness along footrim.


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