A large pair of white glass Eyed Staffordshire spaniels, circa 1890s, a distinctive pair with the typical down turned red mouth of the period and having elaborate gilded feathering to the body now faded to mauve, press moulded upon an unglazed base with large release hole; illustration of similar in Clive Mason Pope, 'A-Z of Staffordshire dogs', 1990, figure 61, page 109. Height 30.5 cm