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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 9493096, member: 56"]I haven't chimed in because a Staffordshire figure has to be pretty famous for me to have a hope. I'm uncomfortable with the composition of the first, and the glaze. Show me another Staffordshire couple with a man playing a musical instrument (or is he smoking a pipe) beside a demurely seated, inactive woman. In such compositions as I see, either the woman has an instrument of her own, or she's dancing or such - she's a more active participant.</p><p><br /></p><p>I might also expect bocage filling the space behind her.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem I have with the glaze is that cascade of white down the front. It's an effect I really like, but is it 19th C Staffordshire?</p><p><br /></p><p>In the thumbnail, this man looked like he might be playing an instrument similar to that in your figure, but as you can see, he's playing bag pipes, and she's managing that group of dogs, not sitting idly by.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]446891[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On the pastille burner: I simply don't know. That's pretty, and there are a lot of real ones out there, but they're probably significantly outnumbered by the fakes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 9493096, member: 56"]I haven't chimed in because a Staffordshire figure has to be pretty famous for me to have a hope. I'm uncomfortable with the composition of the first, and the glaze. Show me another Staffordshire couple with a man playing a musical instrument (or is he smoking a pipe) beside a demurely seated, inactive woman. In such compositions as I see, either the woman has an instrument of her own, or she's dancing or such - she's a more active participant. I might also expect bocage filling the space behind her. The problem I have with the glaze is that cascade of white down the front. It's an effect I really like, but is it 19th C Staffordshire? In the thumbnail, this man looked like he might be playing an instrument similar to that in your figure, but as you can see, he's playing bag pipes, and she's managing that group of dogs, not sitting idly by. [ATTACH=full]446891[/ATTACH] On the pastille burner: I simply don't know. That's pretty, and there are a lot of real ones out there, but they're probably significantly outnumbered by the fakes.[/QUOTE]
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