Royal Doulton Figurine Sweet & Twenty Hn1298 Excellent Condition c1928-36. By Leslie Harradine.

This beautiful royal doulton figure depicts a lady wearing a red ball gown with fan in her hand and her hat beside her sitting on a sofa.

Fully marked to base.

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(Arthur) Leslie Harradine (1887–1965) was one of Royal Doulton's premier, and most prolific, figurine modellers from 1920 until the mid-1950s.

Born Arthur Leslie Harradine in Lambeth to Charles Percy, a solicitor's clerk, and Jessie Harradine (nee Tealby) in 1887, he first joined the Doulton Lambeth studio as an apprentice in 1902 working under George Tinworth while studying part-time at the Camberwell School of Arts. He went on to qualify and work in the Royal Doulton design department. His main interest lay in clay sculpture and the design of free standing figures and he produced several prototypes for these which came to the attention of Charles Noke the Royal Doulton art director in Burslem.

Despite his interest in figure modelling, and his apparent skill in that area, Leslie Harradine was required to design vases for the Lambeth Art Studios for most of his time and this was not something he enjoyed doing. His ambition was to set up his own small modelling studio where he could do the work he loved. At the time this was not possible so he suddenly decided to follow his brother Percy's dream instead.