STAFFORDSHIRE FIGURE.
(About 1790.)
Decorated and refired by Absolon, of Yarmouth.
BASE OF FIGURE.
(Enlarged.)
Showing painted mark "Absolon Yarm."
(In the collection of Mr. F. I. Burwood.)
The group of Toby Jugs illustrated ([p. 383]), exhibit the best known models of a much collected variety of earthenware. These examples are collectors' specimens, but later models may be said to be like—
The grand old name of gentleman,
Defamed by every charlatan,
And soil'd with all ignoble use.
That it was not infrequent to take a model bodily from English porcelain is shown by the group entitled the Birth of Venus, which is taken from a Plymouth group of the same subject (illustrated [p. 355]), this apparently belongs to the Enoch Wood period.