Lot Essay
A pair of very similar cranes, from the Collection of Mrs. Gubbay, can be found at Clandon Park, Surrey; see Patricia F. Ferguson, Ceramics, 400 years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces, The National Trust, 2016, pp. 102-3. Another very similar pair were sold The Hodroff Collection, Part III, Christie's New York, 23 January 2009, lot 257.