(Clearance) Early Staffordshire Pottery – TITHE PIG GROUP af

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Early 19th century Staffordshire pottery group of three figures, Farmer, Wife & Vicar, depicting the famous  **‘Tithe Pig Story’
Pearlware decorated with overglaze enamel colours.
Date: circa 1825
Height : 7” (17.8cm)
Condition : Losses to bocage, handle of basket, part of farmer’s stick. Old restoration to farmer’s right arm and piglet. (See photos)
Stock ref : 18325/ygo-
Price: £ 85 inc UK p&p (export shipping added at checkout)
(£300-£400 in good condition)
**Inspired by the Derby porcelain group, which was modelled after the engraving by Boitard (see additional images)

The Tithe Pig Story
“A certain very mean and grasping rector called on one of his parishioners, a poor woman with a large family, having heard that her sow had farrowed and intending to claim the tenth pig of the litter. For some time she argued the point, but he was firm and not to be put to shame.
At last she said, ‘Well zur, if you do have the tenth pig then you do take the tenth child too, for I’ve got eleven o’ they’ “ …..
[The Farmers Almanck]

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