Tinworth Figurines
Play Goers mouse group, George Tinworth for Doulton Lambeth, London, c.1885, glazed stoneware, impressed with maker’s mark and artist’s monogram, 5 in. h., $2,581.
Five figurines by English pottery artist George Tinworth were auctioned at Bonham’s in a sale that also included Dutch art pottery. Tinworth is credited as being the first and greatest artist of Doulton. Many historians say that he’s responsible for the Doulton Lambeth factory in London in the late 1800s. Tinworth was born into poverty […]