Hundreds of pottery factories were set up in Staffordshire during the Victorian period, many of them producing crued colourful figures, sold to decorate the more humble households. In a dark cottage in winter they must have seemed so bright and joyful, their colours brightening any room they were displayed, from kitchen to bed chamber.
 
This is a large figure depicting sleeping beauty and the wicked witch. The trunk behind them is hollow and would have been for holding spills ( long tapers to light a fire) 
 
The overall condition is good, the figure has a slight rubbing to the paint on the cloak and some very tiny flea bite chips to the rim of the trunk.
 
Dimentions: 18cm x 11cm x 31cm