A Most Impressive Large 19th Century Continental Pottery Figure Group

Code: 751309

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This large pottery hand painted continental figure group depicts a flamboyantly dressed aristocratic swordsman sat upon his muscular white stallion whilst giving attention to a pretty young peasant girl who is carrying a flagon of ale. This highly decorative piece is raised onto a naturalistic grassy base which is moulded and stepped and has a central band of medallions which is finished to look like carved marble. This most unusual pottery figure group is of a scale usually only seen in decorative bronze sculpture. It has survived very well in the 140 years of its existence but has had some very minor old repairs such as a finger tip, sword hilt, tip of the horse’s ear and a small part of one stirrup and the handle on the flagon. All very small repairs with no major damage and still represents a good decorative large scale piece at good value for money, circa 1880