Rare Doulton Mouse Group Celebrating Gunpowder Plot by Tinworth

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A rare Doulton mouse group by George Tinworth, celebrating the 'Gunpowder Plot', depicting a central mouse representing a behatted Guy Fawkes carrying a lantern, seated between two supporting characters; the domed plinth base inscribed: 'I see no reason, why gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot'. Artist's monogram incised to rear and factory mark impressed beneath. Tiny chip to one ear. Height 12 cm. Note: U.K. ceramic historian and author Peter Rose published a list of known Tinworth mouse/frog groups in the Royal Doulton International Collectors Club magazine in 1989 where an example of 'Gunpowder Treason' was illustrated; this is the only other referenced version of this model known and the only known example to have come on the auction market

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Incised - A record of a name, date or inscription, or a decoration scratched into a surface, usually of a glass or ceramic item with a blunt instrument to make a coarse indentation. Compare with engraving where the surface is cut with a sharp instrument such as a metal needle or rotating tool to achieve a fine indentation.

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