Lot 222
222
A pair of Derby seated tabby cats
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A pair of Derby seated tabby cats

CIRCA 1765

Details
A pair of Derby seated tabby cats
Circa 1765
Seated to left and right, the left hand example with a brown rat beneath its paw, each with white chest, oubj nyzzkem urib-red eyes and with striped puce coats, on shaped oval scroll-moulded bases enriched in puce, green and yellow (ears restored, the right hand example with crack through above right paw and four chips to base, the left hand example with minute chips to nose and small chip to base at back)
About 4 in. (10 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Bought from Winifred Williams, London, January 1980.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

Cf. Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (London, 1957), pl. 105, fig. 282 for the example formerly in the Radford Collection, sold Sotheby's, 3 November 1943, lot 136.

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