• Style:
Pictorial, humorous
• Technique: Painted & gilded
• Maker: T. C. Brown-Westhead,
Moore
• Dimensions:
8" x 8"
• Date: 1880 (circa)
• Condition: Fine
• Price: £840 (approx. $1000)
• Ref: 07525
A rare example of this famous company's wares
exquisitely painted and gilded. Gilding to the
title, costumes and metalwares illustrated the
sword scabbard and shoe buckles. The costumes
are incredible with between two and three
hundred delicately gilded elements on his jacket
and the maidens' headdresses, the turquoise
enamel on the right maiden has relief aking to
majolica.
The title literally translates to, "he
doesn't know which foot to dance on," but in
colloquial French translates to, "he doesn't
know which way to look."
Once the largest pottery in the England with
works occupying nearly 80 acres it exported much
to Europe, had showrooms in Paris and Hamburg,
made for other retailers and supplied
royalty.
Few of its better wares are marked and the
name relatively unknown compared to Mintons,
Wedgwood and others keen to market their brand,
as often is the case the greatest wares are made
by those who do not put a great effort in to
marketing just in to producing great
products.
This is unmarked however I have had an
example of its companion on a dust-pressed tile
which bears the embossed maker's mark.
Verso clean, unmarked.
Two very light short scratches, minute losses
to the black border line.
