A RARE German porcelain fairing, owned by a Kidderminster woman, stole the show at an auction.
Halls Fine Art sold the fairing entitled Come away do for £3,800 at its sale-room in Shrewsbury.
The four-inch high ceramic piece, dating back to 1880, was part of a collection of 22. A buyer from Devon snapped it up last Friday.
The 56-year-old vendor said she was "stunned" when a part of her collection fetched nearly £4,000.
Ceramics expert Jeremy Lamond said: "This particular fairing attracted such interest because it was quite rare and, apparently, had never been on the market before. Fairings were put on mantle pieces as figures of amusement in the Edwardian period."
He added: "They were usually won at the fair and depict amusing scenes of risque courtship and marriage or of politics, children and sometimes animals behaving as children."
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