Lot Essay
Cf. Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 95 for a similar model marked 'FELL' in the Wisbech & Fenland Museum, no. 1901.80
Details
A FELL PEARLWARE MODEL OF A RECUMBENT SHEEP
CIRCA 1820
With ochre spots and three brown stripes on a green mound base
6 1/8in. (15.6cm.) wide
CIRCA 1820
With ochre spots and three brown stripes on a green mound base
6 1/8in. (15.6cm.) wide
Provenance
Mabel B. Garvan, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, October 31, 1970, lot 73