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Staffordshire Pearlware Pigeon Tureen and Covers |
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Ceramics |
SubType: |
{Other} |
Origin: |
England-UK |
Era: |
19th Century |
Width: |
7 inches inches |
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Unusual Pair of Staffordshire Pearlware Pigeon Tureen and Covers
The tureens are in the form of pigeons on a nest, each pigeon with red circled brown eyes and brown and puce plumage, the nest splashed in brown and shredded with ochre grass.
Reference: A similar pair is illustrated in Major Cyril Earle's, The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery, p. 131, nos. 111 & 112.
Circa 1820.
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