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Your Price: $ 85.00
Item Number: 0423200108
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Circa: vintage
Condition: good
Size: 4 inches tall
Type: Victorian China Fairing Boy and Girl
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Glazed fairing of an Adolescent Boy and Girl. smudge mark on back but of Figurine which is in the Glaze, no other marks I can see.
Most of us have at one time or another visited the Fair, to return home highly delighted with some small token won at one of the stalls, perhaps the hoopla, or even the coconut shy. Which ever stall it was that benefited from our patronage mattered little compared to the joy we felt at gaining a prize which, more often than not, was a very cheap plastic or plaster figure of a dog, cat or even a human figure worth only a few pence.
Had we lived in the later half of the 19th century, we would more than likely have come home the proud owner of a little china figure, which is now referred to as a "Fairing". These Fairings were mostly about 3.5" long and about 2.5" deep and 3" tall, mounted on a rectangular base. Each one, and there were over 400 different varieties, depicted an amusing scene either of risqué courtship and marriage, parenthood, politics, war, children and sometimes animals behaving as children
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