Harradine The Old Balloon Seller Analysis
Harradine: The Old Balloon Seller
In 1929, Doulton introduced a series of figures, which would resonate with figures by Vyse. However, due to the constraints of mass production, the Doulton figures appear to lack the subtle animation that sets a Vyse figure apart from the mundane. Furthermore, Doulton added a new design by Leslie Harradine HN1315 Old Balloon Seller, to its range of street vendors. Unfortunately, to Vyse’s jaundiced viewpoint, this was indeed a contentious title (Fig 97). In the heyday of Doultons figure production, HN1315 Old Balloon Seller, manufactured in earthenware, and underglaze-decorated, was possibly the best known of all Doulton’s street sellers. It maintained its popularity when production was transferred to the Far …show more content…
The street vendor figure HN1316 Toys (Fig. 98), is unusual in that it is both satirical and amusing. The subject, a female toy seller is offering for sale, which may be described in modern parlance, a tray of toy-boys or at the very least some young men. The figure Toys, it would seem, was produced in just the one colour way, and was withdrawn from production by 1938. Doulton also promoted in 1929, Harradine’s HN1359 Two-a-Penny (Fig. 99). Doubtless, this figure is doubtless a subtle variation in modelling of HN1316 Toys. It is an identical colour way, with the red and greens decorating the tray. However, in this guise the subject is selling not beaux, but rather buttons and bows, for the said two-a-penny, it was also withdrawn by 1938. A third figure was titled HN1325 The Orange Seller (Fig. 100). Although not a distinguished piece of modelling by Harradine, it has proved the more successful on its own merits and has remained in production for some twenty years, and discontinued in 1949. HN1325 The Orange Seller was marketed as a pair with HN1339 Covent Garden (Fig. 101). Both of these figures were decorated in a colour edition of predominately green with lilac aprons or bodice. The latter figure, Covent Garden at 9 inches high is some 2 inches taller than The Orange Seller, subsequently proved not to be a great commercial success, and difficult from a manufacturing point of view, possibly because of the additional weight supported by the subject’s slender neck, by 1938, it had been
In 1929, Doulton introduced a series of figures, which would resonate with figures by Vyse. However, due to the constraints of mass production, the Doulton figures appear to lack the subtle animation that sets a Vyse figure apart from the mundane. Furthermore, Doulton added a new design by Leslie Harradine HN1315 Old Balloon Seller, to its range of street vendors. Unfortunately, to Vyse’s jaundiced viewpoint, this was indeed a contentious title (Fig 97). In the heyday of Doultons figure production, HN1315 Old Balloon Seller, manufactured in earthenware, and underglaze-decorated, was possibly the best known of all Doulton’s street sellers. It maintained its popularity when production was transferred to the Far …show more content…
The street vendor figure HN1316 Toys (Fig. 98), is unusual in that it is both satirical and amusing. The subject, a female toy seller is offering for sale, which may be described in modern parlance, a tray of toy-boys or at the very least some young men. The figure Toys, it would seem, was produced in just the one colour way, and was withdrawn from production by 1938. Doulton also promoted in 1929, Harradine’s HN1359 Two-a-Penny (Fig. 99). Doubtless, this figure is doubtless a subtle variation in modelling of HN1316 Toys. It is an identical colour way, with the red and greens decorating the tray. However, in this guise the subject is selling not beaux, but rather buttons and bows, for the said two-a-penny, it was also withdrawn by 1938. A third figure was titled HN1325 The Orange Seller (Fig. 100). Although not a distinguished piece of modelling by Harradine, it has proved the more successful on its own merits and has remained in production for some twenty years, and discontinued in 1949. HN1325 The Orange Seller was marketed as a pair with HN1339 Covent Garden (Fig. 101). Both of these figures were decorated in a colour edition of predominately green with lilac aprons or bodice. The latter figure, Covent Garden at 9 inches high is some 2 inches taller than The Orange Seller, subsequently proved not to be a great commercial success, and difficult from a manufacturing point of view, possibly because of the additional weight supported by the subject’s slender neck, by 1938, it had been