Staffordshire pearlware pottery Tithe Pig group, circa 1820

The story based on the medieval fable about the farmer’s wife who determined not to part with her tenth pig unless the parson takes her tenth child. “Kept back the Pig and held the Child, The Priest look’d gruff, the wife look’d big, Zounds, Sir, quoth she, no Child, no Pig”

Height: 6 ½”

Width: 5″

Condition: Bocage broken and the small pig to the front of the base has a large chip on his head



£260

US$331