This is probably a twentieth century hand-sculpted stoneware figure of a woman holding a baby in what I believe is adorned in a Bristol glaze, a type of glazing technique that was first developed in Bristol, England in 1835. In fact, it is sometimes called "double glazed ware" because the two-tone effect required dipping the object into the glaze twice.
Bristol glazes were also manufactured in America in places like western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, parts of the Midwest and perhaps elsewhere in the country. But Ohio was probably the most prevalent location in America for the production of Bristol glazes based on the influx of English potters that happened in the state in the 1800s.
Additionally, I suspect that the manufacture of this object was also in some way inspired after ceramic figures manufactured in Staffordshire, England, especially some of those that were produced during the Victorian Period, such as this object that was recently found in an estate in Clayton, Missouri and may have been inspired from that type of production.
A Bristol Glazed Stoneware Figure Probably Made in Ohio
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