Description:
Press molded in two halves and joined along the sides, small standing figure of a woman with wide, pleated panniered skirt, woman holds her hands together in front of her skirt, she stands on a small round mound of earth, the figure is decorated with metallic oxide colors; the eyes are highlighted in brown, the stomacher in blue, and the skirts in brown, blue, green, and yellow. With large brown eyes, wearing a blue stomacher over a wide panniered skirt striped in manganese, yellow and green, and splotched in blue, and modeled standing with her hands at the front of her bodice, and standing on an oval mound base colored in the same underglaze-oxides and green glaze.Condition: Good, but some tiny chips on the footrim. A similar molded figure is in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg, 1963-385. This figure is also found in white salt-glazed stoneware; the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University owns an example. Women rarely occur as individual figures in the mid eighteenth century and are usually seen as part of an elaborate assemblage such as an arbor group, pew group, or at a tea table.
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