This is an interesting Scottish figurine or little handmade sculpture. It was made at Coll Pottery based on the Isle of Lewis in the late 1960s / early 1970s.
These pieces of vintage Coll studio pottery made on the Scottish Islands are now highly collectable.
These quirky figurines depicting local life and customs were made by Marjory Maclellan, who made a variety of stylized clay figures to capture the heritage of life on the islands which was gradually dying out. She was probably looking at much earlier East Coast Potteries such as Prestonpans for her initial inspiration. The figurine is rather naive and this adds to the charm of Coll Pottery.
This one is signed on the base Coll Pottery / Isle of Lewis
The model is a variant of another one which features a lody carrying peat in a basket. This one has the contents of the creel changed to show lots of little ceramic fish. The lady is now a fishwife carrying a wicker creel on her back - her catch is heavy and she stoops under its weight. She wears and long blue dress and around her waist is a white apron with blue vertical stripes. She has an olive green scarf around her head.
The height is 7 inches. The diameter of the base is 2 3/4 inches.
In very good condition with no damage.
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