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Splendid Large 19C White English Staffordshire Spaniel Hunt Mantle Dog Pair 10”

$ 314.69

  • Antique: Yes
  • Brand: Staffordshire
  • Color: White with Gold Markings and Black Features
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Featured Refinements: Staffordshire Spaniel
  • Features: Stunning Large Scale 19C Mantle Hearth Dogs
  • Finish: High Glaze
  • Handmade: Yes
  • Item Height: 10”
  • Item Length: 8”
  • Item Weight: Heavy
  • Item Width: 5.25”
  • Material: English Porcelain
  • Number of Items in Set: Two-Piece
  • Occasion: All Occasions
  • Origin: Staffordshire
  • Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
  • Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
  • Pattern: Traditional
  • Product Line: Light Surviving Pearlescent Glaze on Snout
  • Production Style: Art Pottery
  • Production Technique: Modelled
  • Set Includes: One Large Right and Left Facing Pair
  • Shape: Figural Royal Hunt Spaniel Pair
  • Style: Traditional English
  • Theme: English Country Life Animals • Spaniel Dogs
  • Type: Antique Pair English Staffordshire Mantle Dogs

Description

Stunning Very Rare Pair Large 19C Antique Classic English Porcelain Staffordshire Mantle Dogs • Marvelous 19th Century Decorative Arts Objects • Height 10” This is a pretty rare original pair of 19C antique white English Staffordshire mantle dogs with warm gold lustre markings and faint luminous pearlescent glaze to snouts. Featuring classic formal expressions, yet each one with its own warm personality, this pair is exquisite in its scale and quality. In lovely rarely seen size and elegant form with deep moulding to coat and tail, this pair of stately right and left facing figures is a superb early period example that will bring a grand touch of English aesthetic to any setting in which it is placed. Timeless and versatile, this stunning pair may be arranged front and center on its own as a focal point on a mantlepiece, side piece or table, or collectively. These very heavy authentic antique fireside dogs are in excellent condition and are marvelous surviving period examples. Typical characteristic underglaze manufacturing anomalies present as expected in these early primitive figures which are clues to past and authenticity. Minimal expected age related post-production wear. A one of a kind treasure to own forever. Display ready. * Listing is for pair of large mantle heart dogs only. Additional pieces are for display purposes. Height 10”