BOSSONS CONGLETON ENGLAND CHALKWARE HEAD "PUNJABI" 1964 LARGE NEAR FLAWLESS

Description: FREAKISHLY REALISTIC. INCREDABLE DETAIL. SEE PHOTOS. FROM THE BOSSON COLLECTORS WEBSITE: THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF THE W. H. BOSSONS COMPANIES It is important to note that the W. H. Bossons Company closed its doors and ceased all operations on December 6, 1996. However, the history of these companies is essentially the story of two men, trained in the craft of making pottery, who transformed their craft into a serious art form. It is also, to borrow a phrase from Dickens, a tale of two cities, or, to be more exact, a tale of two towns in England. One is Stoke-on_Trent, a manufacturing center in Staffordshire, where these two men were trained and is the recognized "Potteries" district in England. It was here, some 35-miles south of Manchester in northern England that Josiah Wedgwood of Wedgwood China fame introduced fine chinaware in the 1700's. Today, potteries still form the main industry in Stoke-on-Trent: Wedgwood, Spode and Staffordshire ware all come from this area. About eight miles from the northern border of Stoke-on Trent andapproximately 185 miles north of London, just inside the County of Cheshire, is the little township of Congleton, England. A very quaint and endearing town of about 25,000 people this was the home of the W. H. Bossons, Ltd. Company for a little over fifty years. Ray Bossons was an extremely talented artist with an intuitive ability to anticipate market trends. He was a perfectionist with regard to the anatomical detail, artistic excellence and historical accuracy of each item of art the company created. He was the creative genius and without question, the designer extraordinaire of the W. H. Bossons companies following the death of his father, W. H. Bossons in 1951. The company's reputation spread within a comparatively short period of time to all the principal markets of the world. Most of the original ideas and basic concepts came from Ray Bossons fertile imagination. He would sketch the ideas for the wall masks and figurines after much research on each character to be portrayed and relied on his extensive library for research material. The original models were executed in clay by highly talented sculptors with no limit set on the time it took to create an original model. Ray Bossons would set the standard s for the pieces and then turn them over to the staff of painters to complete. Much to the chagrin of Bossons collectors worldwide, the company closed its doors and ceased all operation on December 6, 1996. Mr. W. Ray Bossons passed away on May 27, 1999 at age 80.

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