Tayler & Fletcher
Lot 1
Twelve 19th century fairings to include 'Before English Neutrality 1870-71 attending the wounded', 'Oysters Sir?', 'A pleasant termination to happy evening', 'Can-can', 'Returning at one o'clock in the morning' and 'Waiting for a bus''Waiting for a bus' - £500 price tag on the back, condition good; 'For three legs' - minor paint rubbing but porcelain appears good; 'Taking the cream' - firing cracks around necks of both figures that look original and are not deemed subsequent damage; 'Can can' - there is, in the auctioneer's opinion, a glazed crazing that appears as a hairline to the drum-shaped seat that the female subject is on but this appears just glaze crazing not actual damage; 'English neutrality' - some minor paint loss and a small horizontal firing crack to the neck of the figure lying on the ground; 'Oysters Sir?' - very minor rim fritting to edge of plinth base otherwise good and small piece away to top of sign saying Oysters! otherwise good; 'A pleasant termination to happy evening - very small match-head sized chip away (historic) only really visible to underside of base, small chip to far right object on floor to right of seated male otherwise OK; 'After' - vertical firing crack visible to underside in corner angle; 'Returning at one o'clock in the morning' - the standing female figure has lost the item originally in raised right arm; 'the figure '......fall to the ground' - small match-head sized porcelain chip away to underside base corner (historic) viewed from the rear the red cloak hanging over the chair appears to have a horizontal hairline running right across the cloak approx. 1 cm up from the bottom, in the auctioneer's opinion this has had some re-colour restoration at some point; 'The organ boy' - very dark to underside with two discernible hairline cracks (please see images) largish chip away to inside left hand plinth base (as viewed from the front) historic firing crack to prop that male figure is against, kiln grit prevalent in glaze. To a certain degree there are mostly minor paint losses to some of the fairings.
![A mahogany chair with cane seat and back rest on castored supports and one other with cane back rest. [2]](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b94ff290-3954-478d-a7b8-ae1500f3ce32/377a3cd3-9de6-4182-a51e-ae1900cf8131/468x382.jpg)
