Except that it's three but we'll look at
the one first! Hailing from Comet/Authenticast's
subsidiary Gaeltacht Industries'
works in the Republic of Eire, and frankly not up to the quality one would
expect from Holgar Eriksson, so possibly one of the other sculptors?
It's also funny that last weekend I shot
tons of stuff at Sandown Park, yet still haven't blogged most of the stuff I
shot at Sandown three months ago! This was one of them (from three months ago),
nice ECW musketeer, spoilt by the daft firing-arm with its elbow pointing at
the ceiling . . . or sky!
These came from a charity shop (British
Heart Foundation - I think?) about a week ago, clearly the gods (or 'your' god,
if you've only got the one!) wanted a T for Two Irish! When I first saw them
I though "Ooh, Wade",
picked up the unmarked one first and thought "No?", and then found
the mark on the other. I think they are related, the blue glaze is the same,
but for 'T is for Two' purposes, the one on the right counts.
They are similar to Wade's figurines (Seagoe Ceramics?) but
they don't have the lines on the bases. Equally they are similar to the bisque
cake decorations of yesteryear, but gloss-fired enamel, where the cake toppers
used to get a matt-paint over the fired clay. They also show signs of having been
glued to something with brown/animal glue; so maybe touristy something's?
Anyone got any ideas? I mean - clearly they
are Leprechauns and I have to be very polite to them, but - any other ideas?!!
The one on the left (Pádraig) seems to be carving a crib (Christmassy) while
the one on the right (Pádraic) seems to be panning for gold to put in a pot at the end
of a rainbow . . . of course!
2 comments:
Nay, wee or not, I never met a leprechaun that could be trusted.
Sssshhhhh! You obviously haven't been polite-enough to them Jan!
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