A FINE PAIR OF ENAMELLED SPANIELS

CIRCA 1760

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A FINE PAIR OF ENAMELLED SPANIELS
circa 1760
Each naturalistically modelled lying recumbent with bushy tail tucked in beside the back leg, their heads turned to the left and right with alert expressions and their mouths enamelled pink, their bodies finely enamelled primarily en grisaille with some pale sepia shading and white patches in realistic imitation of fur markings, some extremity restoration
10 in. (26 cm.) wide, wood stands (2)

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Please note there is more restoration than indicated in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Very similar models of spaniels were discovered on the shipwreck of the Griffin, a British East India Companyu ship which sank in about 1761. They were made in several sizes, the present examples being the largest of this model. A similar pair, but one enamelled brown and the other iron-red, are in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, illustrated by W. R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, 1991, no.90, p.187. A single spaniel, decorated in sepia, formerly in the Mottahedeh Collection, is illustrated by D. S. Howard, Masterpieces of Chinese Export Porcelain, 1980, no.622, p.77.

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