A GILBERT WILLIAM BAYES (1872-1953) STONEWARE POST FINIAL MADE BY ROYAL DOULTON (EST.1815)

"These polychrome stoneware sculptures were used as finials for washing line posts at St Pancras Housing association Estates, and also as garden ornaments. They featured in exhibitions around the country and abroad form 1936 and until 1939." Paul Atterbury & Louise Irvine, The Doulton Story, V&A ,1979, p. 30