£100 - £150
Pair of Conta and Boehme Fairing porcelain figurines with backstamp and numbered. Fairings are small, brightly colored porcelain figural groups, mounted on rectangular or circular bases. Fairings were first made by the German companies of Springer and Oppenheim of Loket in Bohemia and, after about 1850, by Conta & Boehme of Possnek for the British market. With more than 400 different figures recorded, fairings depict amusing, cheeky, charming, or newsworthy subject matter and were popular in Britain from the 1850s. Often given as prizes at fares. Hence the name.
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