Figure of Peace

This extremely large and very impressive ceramic figure likely depicts Peace, though some scholars suggest that she may be Innocence. At nearly 30 inches tall, this is believe to be the largest ceramic figure made in the Staffordshire region of England in the hey-day of earthenware pottery production in the mid to late 18^th century. The best known of those factories was Josiah Wedgwood’s factory at Burslem which helped to bring pottery into the homes of many middle-class English people. A figure of the same form with different enameled decoration is marked with the stamp of the Wedgwood factory, and while this figure is unmarked, it is possible that they came from the same mold.