A pearlware 'Bull Baiting' group
typically modelled, the tethered bull bearing down over a crouching terrier, behind the hound stands a man raising a whip, on a rectangular section base, enriched in blue, yellow, green, brown and ochre -- 12½in. (31.8cm.) wide, early 19th century (damages and restoration) See colour plate I
Lot Essay
Cf. Pat Halfpenny, 'English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840', p. 103 for a similar example
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