A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE GROUP OF 'THE DEATH OF MUNROW'

CIRCA 1825, ATTRIBUTED TO OBADIAH SHERRATT

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A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE GROUP OF 'THE DEATH OF MUNROW'
Circa 1825, attributed to Obadiah Sherratt
Modelled as a large yellow and black tiger attacking and dragging Lieutenant Monroe away, his head in the beast's mouth, on a rectangular table base moulded with ribbon-tied swags, named on the front, above bracket feet
14½in. (36.8cm.) high

Literature

Manheim, pl. no. 36

Lot Essay

See Oliver, p. 39 and 40, fig. 45; and Sharp, p. 241. This group is based on the gory fate that befell Lieutenant Hector Monroe in India on the 2nd of December, 1792. One account states that while attending a picnic and 'having occasion to retire into the surrounding undergrowth for a necessary moment, he was pounced on by a tiger while his attention and natural caution were diverted.' Another version published in 1807 has him attacked while shooting a deer.

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