There's plenty to compare, and people do ask strong prices....
If you're lucky, I won't stab you?
Maybe I can re-purpose it as a small table.
I haven't bought anything even remotely collectible for months, but pack rats die hard. Today on my walk I noticed a lot of unusual things out...
I would think this was a professional production, but not a particularly successful cast from the mold.
I'd say it's commemorative of the Franco-Prussian war. The choice of lid seems a bit strange.
I generally think of "after" as meaning copied from someone's original work, but in a different medium. So you can have things like engravings...
The earliest of those marks (but not the others) is in Godden: Encyclpaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain marks.
What source did you use?
I suspect it's modern and Chinese just because the the lack of information around that crest.
Crystalline glazes show crystal growth within the glaze. [ATTACH] but it's a bit off-topic, isn't it.
Possibly John Linnell (1792-1882).
If you think that's a signature above the head of the man on the right, I think it's a sailboat on the water.
Not a crystalline glaze... flambe maybe.
George Raft? (Not seriously, but there is a resemblance.) [ATTACH]
Harker Pottery, East Liverpool, Ohio
Very handsome beasties.
I like this kind of stuff - very intricate and precise. The cheaper modern stuff, like this frame that came with a touristy mughal-style...
Your etching of the winter house was probably his own design, but The Gleaner from the link is after a painting by Jules Breton.
I'd think they are the same person. The style is consistent. Here's some info:...
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