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Alpha ('Alpha' is the name given to an unknown factory, producer of a recognisable group of high quality Staffordshire figures. See Gordon-Pugh 1981 p11 for a note on this factory.)
Figure of Eliza Cook, white earthenware, crackle glaze, standing on a roughly oval plinth incribed in impressed gilt capitals and with a gilt sprig at either end. Wearing a green, red and blue tartan striped skirt over an orange underskirt spotted in black, a pink bodice sprigged with a deeper pink, yellow jacket, blue necklace, naturalistically coloured face, brown ringlets. Holding a black book in her right hand.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32533
Creation/Production
Alpha
Date: 1849 ca.
Acquisition
Bequest, 12/1/1995
Measurements
Height (cm): 25.4
Length (cm): 12.8
Width (cm): 11.3
Height (in): 10
Length (in): 5
Width (in): 4
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
Location
In store
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