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Lot Essay
A saucer painted with the same subject is illustrated by William H. Tapp, Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale 1734-1801 (London, 1938), pl. 16, fig. 38; another saucer and a teapot, from the Collection of the late Miss Margaret MacHarg were sold Sotheby's, 16 May 1961, lots 153 and 154.
There was a goat grazing up high on a cliff. At the bottom of the cliff there was a wolf who wanted to catch the goat and eat her. Since it was impossible for the wolf to climb up the cliff, he stood down below and said to the goat, 'You poor creature! Why have you left the level plains and meadows in order to graze upon the cliff? Are you trying to tempt death from that height?' The goat said to the wolf in response, 'I know how often I have managed to frustrate you! What makes you think that you can now get me to come down off this cliff so that you can eat me for dinner?' Fable 100, transcribed from Aesop's Fables, A New Translation by Laura Gibbs (Oxford, 2002).
There was a goat grazing up high on a cliff. At the bottom of the cliff there was a wolf who wanted to catch the goat and eat her. Since it was impossible for the wolf to climb up the cliff, he stood down below and said to the goat, 'You poor creature! Why have you left the level plains and meadows in order to graze upon the cliff? Are you trying to tempt death from that height?' The goat said to the wolf in response, 'I know how often I have managed to frustrate you! What makes you think that you can now get me to come down off this cliff so that you can eat me for dinner?' Fable 100, transcribed from Aesop's Fables, A New Translation by Laura Gibbs (Oxford, 2002).