COPELAND; A VICTORIAN PARIAN WARE FIGURE OF ‘LITTLE NELL’ AND BUST OF A GIRL, TOGETHER WITH FOUR OTHER PARIAN FIGURES (6)

The figure modelled with book in hand, stamped ‘Copeland’ to the reverse, 30.5cm high; the bust of girl, stamped ‘Copeland J 75’ to the reverse, on an ebonised plinth, 27cm high; Together with a seated figure of Dorothea, after a model by John Bell for Minton; a Minton figure of an angel (lacking wings), 30cm high; a boy with a donkey, 24cm high and a seated figure of girl with basket of flowers, 22cm high

‘Little Nell’ appears in Charles Dickens’ “The Old Curiosity Shop”, which was published in serial betweeen 1840-1841, and published in book form in 1841.