RARE GOLD VARIANT 1952 MODEL GRANDMOTHER\'S DRESS #3081 FIGURINE UNDAMAGED For Sale

$RARE GOLD VARIANT 1952 MODEL GRANDMOTHER\'S DRESS #3081 FIGURINE UNDAMAGED$
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RARE GOLD VARIANT 1952 MODEL GRANDMOTHER\'S DRESS #3081 FIGURINE UNDAMAGED:
$29.00

A VINTAGE ROYAL WORCESTER GRANDMOTHER\'S DRESS #3081 FIGURINE, IN THE RARE GOLD VARIANT.

THE ROYAL WORCESTER MARKS MEAN THAT THIS PIECE WAS MADE IN 1952.

MODELLED BY FREDA DOUGHTY -

Worcester Artists Dorothy Doughty (1892-1962) and Freda Doughty (-1972)

The Doughty Sisters, Dorothy and Freda Doughty, probably did more to ensure the future prosperity and stability of the Royal Worcester factory than any other Worcester artists or modellers. Born in San Remo, Italy, Dorothy and Freda were the daughters of Charles Doughty, the English poet and traveller (The author of ‘Arabia Deserta’and the inspiration for Lawrence of Arabia ).They came to England when the sisters were still children and settled in Sissinghurst in Kent.

Charles Doughty died in 1926 and the Doughty sisters, neither of whom had married, carried on in the same house by themselves.

Freda Doughty ran childrens modelling lessons from the house always full of bright, hopeful and cheerful boys and girls.

She would frequently use them as live models for the ceramic figurines that she fired in her own kiln.

Dorothy Doughty studied at the Eastboune College of Art where she became a keen naturalist and ornithologist and would paint plasticine models of local bird life.

The late 1920s were not a good time for Royal Worcester.

In an attempt to reverse their financial difficulties they decided to invest their efforts in the production of a brand new range of figurine and animal studies.

Following the employment of various freelance modellers ( Baker, Bray, Cane, Crofts, Lindner, Stabler, Williams and Freda Doughty ) an exhibition to show off the new figures, was set up in a London Art Gallery.

Freda Doughty’s models of young children at play were thought to be old fashioned, both by modellers and the factory workforce.

They looked out of place compared to some of the more ‘avant garde’ almost abstract figures produced by many of the others at the show.

However, people decide what they buy and they took Freda’s little children to their hearts.

Freda Doughty’s models sold in good numbers whilst many of the other Worcester pieces remained unsold.

THERE ARE NO CHIPS, CRACKS OR CRAZING TO THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE.

IT MEASURES 6 1/2\" TALL X 4 1/2\" X 4\".

THANK YOU!

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