English drabware pottery Saving Bank formed as a stylish formal period building. circa 1825

Ref: 41913 Category:

£885

Dated: 1825 English, Staffordshire

This drabware pottery money box in the form of a stylish country bank has a separate roof with two chimneys and a decorative frontage with the title SAVINGS BANK. The roof with a slot for the coins has two holes for securing with a cord to the two holes at the top rim of the base, which is not the most secure method but perhaps a test of trust and responsibility. The piece is crisply relief molded with fine-quality enameled green, black, and white decorations on the windows, doors, walls, and scrolling rococo-shaped base.    

Dimensions: 7 inches high

Current Condition: Chimney invisibly re-attached.

Provenance: Private Collection Cotswolds England

£885    $1194

Description

This drabware pottery money box in the form of a stylish country bank has a separate roof with two chimneys and a decorative frontage with the title SAVINGS BANK.

The roof with a slot for the coins has two holes for securing with a cord to the two holes at the top rim of the base, which is not the most secure method but perhaps a test of trust and responsibility.

The piece is crisply relief molded with fine-quality enameled green, black, and white decorations on the windows, doors, walls, and scrolling rococo-shaped base.

 

 

Additional information

Dimensions 7 in