by Tom Licence | Jun 2, 2019
Ceramic statuette with some under-glaze colour (blue), and other colours painted on. The figure is of a shepherdess, with crook, resting against a ruin or possibly a large tree. She is in 18th- or early 19th-century costume.
by Tom Licence | Jun 1, 2019
Painted ceramic deer statuette, possibly a child’s toy. Damaged.
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Mid-Victorian statuette of man in chair, crudely painted and made in the Staffordshire potteries – possibly a fairing. There are signs that the head (missing) had, in the past, been cemented back on.
by Tom Licence | Jul 14, 2018
Torso of statue of man in Tudor dress, with robe, thick padded sleeves, chain and medallion. Traces of gilding visible on parts; parts retain under-glaze colour. Possibly a Renaissance figure such as Henry VIII.
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Small ceramic meditating Buddha statuette with the base broken off. Possibly of foreign manufacture.
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Head of a female statuette, wearing a cap of the sort popular in the 1900s and 1910s. Decorated with green under-glaze wash on the cap.
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Cheap ornament of woman carrying a parasol, decorated in places with a green under-glaze wash.
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
A cheap, white ceramic ornament, partly painted. A cherub is riding or sitting on a shoe, which has floral/ sea-shell moulding. It may have been a spill-holder or specimen vase or merely an ornament. The missing part of the shoe may have borne a legend commemorating...
by Tom Licence | Mar 3, 2016
Small ceramic ornament in the shape of a table, with two cats peeking out from underneath. The top of the ornament, now damaged, had a row of three teacups and saucers with three tabby cats crouched over the top of them licking off the cream. Found amid ash and...
by Tom Licence | Jan 24, 2015
Pugs were popular in the Victorian era. Small white ceramic pug statuettes were common and often came in pairs. The body would have been standing on four legs, with the head turned to face you.
by Tom Licence | Jan 17, 2015
Shrine statuette of praying figures (Mary and John?) facing, before Christ on the Cross. Cherubs and a cross adorn the canopy. Some orange-yellow over-glaze paint has been applied to the base of the shrine and the cherubs’ wings.
by Tom Licence | Jan 11, 2015
The head of a statuette, which has survived being burned in a destructor.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Part of a statuette of a man in Regency costume. Colouring to hair and face.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Toy clown statuette with colouring to face. This may have been a fairing.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Children’s heads from a fairing – a cheap statuette given away as a prize at the fairground.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Plain white statuette of a woman partly sitting in a couch or bed. Fairings were small ornaments given away as prizes at the fair. This may be one.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Mid-Victorian man in chair, with purple jacket, orange striped trousers, and plain waistcoat. Fairings were cheap ceramic statuettes, given away as prizes at the fair. This is probably one.
