Vintage Royal Doulton My Love HN 2339 Figurine – Peggy Davies, Pink Rose, Pale Blue Gown, Gold Leaf Scatter, Bone China, England 1970s

A Royal Doulton porcelain figurine — My Love, HN 2339 — a young woman seated within the folds of her own gown, looking down at a single pink rose held in her right hand. The figure is one of Peggy Davies's Love & Romance compositions: high chignon at the back of the head, off-shoulder neckline trimmed in a gold V-line, gold sash at the waist, and a flowing Empire-line skirt scattered with hand-applied gold-leaf motifs that catch light against the dress.

Offered as a sold-separately pair from the same source — two examples of HN 2339, identical in model, dress, and finish. Pick the one you'd like, or take both as a matched pair. The only difference between the two is whether the original hang tag is still attached.

Option A — With original Royal Doulton hang tag: the round red-and-white Royal Doulton / Figures & Character Jugs / England paper tag is still tied at the figure's wrist. Most of these tags fall off within the first year of cabinet display; surviving tags are a useful tell of careful storage history and typically command a 15–20% collector premium over the same model without the tag.

Option B — Without hang tag: the same HN 2339 figurine, the tag long since gone (the normal vintage condition). The base mark print on this example sits slightly differently from Option A — same maker stamp, same HN, same catalogue number, but a slight production-batch variation in the gold print depth and sharpness (common across Royal Doulton's thirty-year run of this model, 1965–1995, where moulds and printing plates were refreshed between batches).

Both pieces are otherwise identical — same pale-blue dress tone, same gold-leaf scatter, same pink rose at the hand, same size, same Peggy Davies modelling.

Sit with either figurine and the modelling shows itself. The dress is not draped — Peggy Davies has seated the figure inside her own gown, so the cloth falls outward from the body in twelve or so individually laid pleats that read as actual fabric weight rather than ceramic shape. The hand-painted pink rose at the centre of the composition is the painter's focal point, given three colour tones (deeper rose at the crease, mid-pink at the petal body, paler highlight at the tip), with the green leaf behind the rose picked out separately. The gold-leaf scatter is not transfer-printed; each small leaf is hand-applied 22K gilt on the dress after firing — and the slight variation in leaf placement between the two examples is the giveaway that two different painters finished the two pieces (the same explanation for why the base print sits slightly differently between the two).

The base on both reads in full: Royal Doulton crown-lion stamp at the top with Made in England / Royal Doulton Bone China arched around, then My Love / H.N. 2339 / COPR 1965 / Doulton & Co. Limited / Rd No 921231 / Rd No 47886 / Rd No 10341 / Rd No 452/65 in black script below. The 1965 copyright is the original mould date; production ran from 1965 through 1995 — thirty years — so each example sits somewhere in that window without a datestamp to narrow it further.

A figurine for the HN-series Doulton collector with a Pretty Ladies / Love & Romance focus, for the Peggy Davies specialist, for the rose-themed cabinet, for the romantic / Valentine's / engagement display, or as a Mother's Day / anniversary / nostalgia gift to someone who remembers the cabinet figure-collecting era of the 1970s–80s.