Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 311
Estimate: £500/800
‘Boy Cricketer’. Excellent Parian ware figure of a boy cricketer resting against a tree stump holding a cricket bat to left hand. The figure is of a very high quality and with exceptionally good detailing. Approximately 11” tall. Circa 1860’s. A rare figure in very good condition. Sold with an original sepia carte de visite photograph showing the figure and entitled to lower border ‘The Cricketer’. Pencil inscription to back ‘To Frank Byrne from his teacher, Alice J. Church’. 2.5”x4”
Parian ware was developed around 1845 by the Staffordshire pottery manufacturer Mintons and was essentially designed to imitate carved marble. It is a type of bisque porcelain, prepared in a liquid form and cast in a mould.