Pew group

Typically it has two or three "rigidly posed" figures sitting on a high-backed bench, often with a woman in the centre; great attention is paid to details of hair and clothing.

The setting is not church, as the usual name suggests, but a comfortable home or inn, where high-backed settles (protecting from draughts) were a common piece of furniture.

[12] The settle framework is made from pieces rolled flat; the centre of the back may be decorated, either by piercing or incisions, which may be filled with brown slip.

For the clothes, thin cut slabs were fixed to a cylinder torso, with the many extra details made using a variety of techniques including stamps and roulettes (patterned roller wheels).

[14] This is unlike the single but smaller Staffordshire figures, which are usually in glazed earthenware, which may be agateware, mixing white and brown clay immediately before shaping to give a marbled effect.