I think this maybe English origin. Recognize it?

Approx 5" x9". Signed I think Will Young? Depicting the song "Widecombe Fair" Anyone recognize maker?

 

Thats sooo cute sorry no help though

 

Animal cruelty, it's what Britain is famous for. This depicts the common practice of overloading horses.

It also depict cruelty to innocent clay, perpetuated by some fiend in a smock and sandals with a kiln in their garage, and even though it was obviously made for American tourists, who usually qualify for some really horrible tat, this goes far beyond what the Geneva Tourist Convention permits to be offered on the open market.

Words cannot express how much better the planet would be if that abomination were returned to beneath the tectonic plate from which its materials originated, to rejoin the firey magma in a state of innocence.

Please never find out who made it or I will be obliged to go and make sure they never do it again.

 

lol, I'm not sure, are you saying you don't like it? As my DH says about all my collectibles, he would like them better if he could use them for target practice and then back he goes making some thing plastic on his 3D printer.

 

LOL, af! Your job of search and destroy will be a never ending task, it appears there are thousands of them!

GUNNS GALLERY - Will Young Pottery
WILL YOUNG FIGURES

Will Young was a potter who worked from a studio at Runnaford near Widecombe where in light of his surroundings produced a range of pottery figurines which depicted various characters from the 'Uncle Tom Cobley' legend along with smugglers and rustics. He died in 1995

The family tradition was carried on by Will's son Alan who worked from a pottery in France producing the Widecombe figurines. Alan Young died in January 2011.

These unique sculptures of pirates, smugglers and yokels have been collected by enthusiasts in many countries around the world.

http://www.gunnsgallery.co.uk/index.php?location=artist&artist=356&source=2

 

wowser that was fast. thanks.

 

Lawrences Fine Art Sale on Thursday 6th April 2006
http://www.lawrences.co.uk/Catalogues/fa060406/page16.htm

Lot number 446 Hammer Price £180
A WILL YOUNG WIDDECOMBE FAIR GROUP showing the Widdecombe Fair figures around the old mare, inscription reads 'Tom Pearce's old mare zot a making er will', with a figure holding some paper which reads 'Last Will Of The Grey Mare', marked underneath, Will Young, Devon, 8ins. (20cm.)
http://www.lawrences.co.uk/Catalogues/fa060406/lot446.jpg

Lot number 452 Hammer Price £260
A WILL YOUNG GROUP - 'FOR US WANTS TO GO TO WIDDECOMBE FAIR' the figures on a rectangular base, with Uncle Tom Cobley sitting on a grey mare, the characters names along the front of the group, marked underneath, Will Young, Devon, 11ins. (28cm.)
http://www.lawrences.co.uk/Catalogues/fa060406/lot452.jpg

Lot number 453 Hammer Price £220
A WILL YOUNG GROUP - WIDDECOMBE FAIR decpicting five of the characters seated on the old grey mare, showing 3 miles to Widdecombe, their names along the front, marked underneath Runnaford Pottery, Devon, Will Young, 10 1/2ins. (27cm.) long
http://www.lawrences.co.uk/Catalogues/fa060406/lot453.jpg

Lot number 457 Hammer Price £110
A WILL YOUNG WIDDECOMBE FAIR POTTERY GROUP entitled 'Bringing Home The Old Grey Mare', the mare inside the cart and the figures around it, their names along the front, 10 1/2ins. (27cm.) long
http://www.lawrences.co.uk/Catalogues/fa060406/lot457.jpg

 

thank you for the comparables. It looks like I might be missing reins.

 

AF can include Martin Bros. birds in the same list, thank you very much.

 

I don't think much of his singing either, af.

 

"Fine Art"??? Oh lordy.

I guess this proves there's no accounting for taste.

 

Word fail me. Read Af's instead.

 

I actually like Martin Bros stuff. The birds had a brooding intensity, this thing exhibits what might be called 'negative artistry', it actually sucks enjoyment out of the space around it.

Being tied up and whipped and paying high prices for this pottery are two sides of the same perverse coin.

 

I actually think they are interesting,but my taste can be quirky !

 

Hi Johnny,
Years ago I bought six dead flys. They had knitted sweaters on. Some women in Guatemala were knitting them to make money. They must have gone blind doing that tiny closeup work. I had them framed but I do not remember if I sold them or gave them away. Talk about quirky
greg

 

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You're killing me ova hee af!!!!

 

The poor pottery, frozen into position in a kiln in that position. People liked those big-eyed kid pictures too, once upon a time. There's no accounting, as they say. I'd rather have a black velvet Elvis myself; that could be cut out of the frame and be used to clean up cat mess and the Mexican frame recycled to hold something less hideous. Fired clay? I guess you could smash it into drainage bits for the bottom of a flower pot.

 

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