Royal Doulton Figurine The News Vendor HN2891 Animals Series : Vanity Fair Ladies

Series : Vanity Fair Ladies

celebrating British civic tradition and municipal government

This multi-faceted demand creates strong upward price pressure on the rare examples that reach the market

and it speaks to the long British tradition of honouring the ordinary figures of military and civilian life in ceramic portraiture

this self-taught artist developed a highly recognizable style characterized by elaborate Victorian and Edwardian fashions decorated with beads

Royal Doulton Figurine The News Vendor HN2891 Animals Series : Vanity Fair LadiesThe News Vendor (HN2891) was designed by W. K. Harper and issued by Royal Doulton in 1986 as part of the Street Vendor series, standing 8 inches tall in a limited edition of 2,500 individually numbered pieces. The subject draws on the long tradition of London street life that runs through the very heart of the Street Vendor series the newspaper seller was as much a fixture of the British urban landscape as the balloon seller or the orange vendor, and