AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE MODEL OF A CAT

CIRCA 1760

Details

AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE MODEL OF A CAT
CIRCA 1760
Modeled seated on its haunches, with striped tail and clustered dot fur markings, on a dark-blue mound base
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Mrs. D. Royston; Christie's, London, 9 June 1980, lot 64.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 1993, lot 44.
With Jonathan Horne, London.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D352.

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Lot Essay

For the comparison model, to sinister, see the collection of the Late Countess Temple of Stowe; Christie's, London, 29 January 1979, lot 10. For an undecorated example, see Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery, Kansas City, 1967, p. 48, no. 104.

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