ENGLISH STAFFORDSHIRE HAND-PAINTED CERAMIC SPILL VASE FIGURAL GROUPS, LOT OF TWO, comprising The Rival depicting a couple seated in front of a tree, the woman with a book and stringed instrument in her lap and a figure lurking in the branches above them and one example featuring a couple, possibly Zuleika and Selim, each wearing plumed hats, sitting beneath a tree and holding hands, the woman with a basket in her right hand. Unmarked. Second/third quarter 19th century. 12 1/4" HOA.
Literature: Parallels the Hardings - Victorian Staffordshire Figures, 1835-1875, Book One, p. 328, fig. 1202.
Provenance: From the Victorian Staffordshire Collection of Dr. Bo Rose, Harrisonburg, VA. Sitting couple example undamaged, except each with moderate crazing; The Rival having restoration to spill vase, one figure with flake to hat brim, woman with minute flake to hand, flake to base front edge, and some scattered losses to enamel decorations.