{"id":16,"date":"2005-11-05T17:58:07","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/16"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:36:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:36:48","slug":"figure-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/16","title":{"rendered":"Figure this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid 1980&rsquo;s I bought some small china figurines of dancers. Since then we have collected quite a number of dancers of various sorts but these have always been a puzzle. They were obtained in ones and twos from various local junk, bric-a-brac and antique shops but since then I have never seen one.<\/p>\n<p>My theory is that they were cheap imports sold by someone like Woolworth&rsquo;s to grace the mantelpieces in parlours of the 1930&rsquo;s for those that couldn&rsquo;t afford the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coalport.co.uk\/\">Coalport<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royaldoulton.com\/\">Royal Doulton<\/a> figurines (still available).<\/p>\n<p>They have no makers mark but some have a number moulded into the base, sometimes with the word &#8220;Foreign&#8221;. There are five in my collection viz:&mdash;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/figp3.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-figp3.jpg' alt='Pink figurine 3' \/><\/a> 165mm high round base marked Foreign 8455.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/figp1.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-figp1.jpg' alt='Pink figurine 1' \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/figg.jpg\"> <img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-figg.jpg' alt='Green figurine' \/><\/a> 175mm high round base marked 8456. The pink one is also marked Foreign indicating, perhaps, that the mould was later modified.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/figp2.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-figp2.jpg' alt='Pink figurine 2' \/><\/a> 150mm high oval base with no markings. This may be a separate, smaller series.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/figl.jpg\"><img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-figl.jpg' alt='Lime figurine' \/><\/a> 150mm high oval base marked 8733.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I rather like them; they are graceful and the hand painting is quite well done, though the facial expressions can be a bit odd. The source of all knowledge on knick-knacks (eBay) doesn&#8217;t seem to have come across them. Antiques Roadshow here I come or can anyone tell us anything about them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid 1980&rsquo;s I bought some small china figurines of dancers. Since then we have collected quite a number of dancers of various sorts but these have always been a puzzle. They were obtained in ones and twos from various local junk, bric-a-brac and antique shops but since then I have never seen one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}