Pair of antique Victorian Staffordshire flat back figures of Highwaymen Tom King & Dick Turpin
A beautiful hand painted mid to late 19th century Staffordshire flat back pair depicting infamous highway men Tom King and Dick Turpin on horseback.
Turpin tried to rob Tom King, who was known as "The Gentleman Highwayman". King laughed off the attempt, and the two instead formed a criminal partnership around 1735. The pair operated out of Epping Forest and the surrounding London and Essex areas, robbing travellers, stagecoaches, and stealing horses.
Staffordshire flatbacks were affordable earthenware chimney pieces made in the English Potteries from the late 1830s through the late 19th century. Over 100 small, often unnamed factories produced them as affordable folk art for modest country cottages and middle-class Victorian homes. Flatbacks served as a visual chronicle of Victorian popular culture, current events, and local stories, often inspired by newspaper engravings from the Illustrated London News. A striking decorative shelf or mantle display with plentiful amounts of character and charm.
The figures are both in a good clean condition being free of any visible faults or defects.
Height 29cm
Pair of antique Victorian Staffordshire flat back figures of Highwaymen Tom King & Dick Turpin
A beautiful hand painted mid to late 19th century Staffordshire flat back pair depicting infamous highway men Tom King and Dick Turpin on horseback.
Turpin tried to rob Tom King, who was known as "The Gentleman Highwayman". King laughed off the attempt, and the two instead formed a criminal partnership around 1735. The pair operated out of Epping Forest and the surrounding London and Essex areas, robbing travellers, stagecoaches, and stealing horses.
Staffordshire flatbacks were affordable earthenware chimney pieces made in the English Potteries from the late 1830s through the late 19th century. Over 100 small, often unnamed factories produced them as affordable folk art for modest country cottages and middle-class Victorian homes. Flatbacks served as a visual chronicle of Victorian popular culture, current events, and local stories, often inspired by newspaper engravings from the Illustrated London News. A striking decorative shelf or mantle display with plentiful amounts of character and charm.
The figures are both in a good clean condition being free of any visible faults or defects.
Height 29cm
