Royal Worcester figurine by FREDA DOUGHTY. Girl Masquerade
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ROYAL WORCESTER FIGURINE by freda doughty. MASQUERADE GIRL - Red Sash This is a really delightful figurine that was issued between 1956 and 1971. She is in excellent condition but withone finger tip broken off. No other chips, cracks or restoration. These often fetch £100+ so grab an auction bargain. S he is approximately 6.75 inches or 17 cm high I n the early 1930s Royal Worcester was on the brink of ruin. But a rescue package was at hand and Charles Dyson Perrins bought the company, supplementing the worker’s wages out of his own pocket until the business was out of danger. A new group of modellers–nearly all of them women – were brought in to enliven Royal Worcester’s range. One of the Director’s of Royal Worcester was staying with Freda’s cousin and on seeing examples of Freda’s work he asked her to make something to submit to Worcester . Her first four models of children were an immediate success and led to a long and fruitful partnership. It was Freda’s children that really saved the day and brought Royal Worcester into the market of affordable figurines. A little girl in a long dress called ‘Grandmother’s Dress’ and her partner ‘Boy with a Parakeet’ were so enduringly popular that many factory workers still claim that, in the tricky years of the 1950s, this girl and boy almost single-handedly kept the factory open Freda
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