Description:
Press molded bust thought to be Mary Queen of Scots, bust is composed of a woman without arms, hair is pulled back into a bun with a blue ribbon; she is wearing a pink dress with a blue decorative edge and yellow buttons, she sits on a waisted square plinth or socle, the plinth is decorated in splashed pink luster, at the base of the plinth is a cross, the figure is hollow on the inside. Painted in the interior with Nadeau #214 and white paper label, "Gray Room/ #214/Lusterware/Bust". In email correspondence (July 7, 2016 message to SFP student Phoebe Cos) with Staffordshire ceramics expert, Patricia Halfpenny, "the figure may very well be Mary Queen of Scots, but canny potters often left the names off figures so that the subject matter did not deter customers... I have seen the same large full-length figure untitled, but variously described as St. Paul Preaching at Athens, Eloquence, and Demosthenes." With this application, one figural mold could have multiple uses depending on the pottery's needs and the market's desires.
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