A fine child and Spaniel Staffordshire pair, circa 1850, featuring a Victorian boy and girl each partially sitting on the backs of red and white spaniels, the dogs well painted with feathering, each with a separately moulded front leg and mounted on oval bases, with glazed bases and release holes; the young girl illustrated in Adele Kenny, 'Staffordshire spaniels', 1997, p.121. Height 17 cm