Lot 163
163
A COBALT BLUE AND COPPER RED STAG
A COBALT BLUE AND COPPER RED STAG

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Details
A COBALT BLUE AND COPPER RED STAG
Early 19th century
The reclining sacred beast with copper-red coat spotted in white and details picked out in underglaze blue, a cloud-shaped aperture in his back
13in. (33cm.) long

Lot Essay

From the collection of Mildred and Rafi Mottahedeh and published by D.S. Howard and J.S. Ayers, op. cit., p. 611. A very similar stag was sold Christie's New York, The Thomas M. Evans Collection, 18 June 1998, lot 236.