18TH/19TH CENTURY

The dating of these models has ranged from late 18th century to circa 1880. See C. Le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain, ex. cat., no. 56, for a pair in the Nelson Rockefeller collection dated late 18th century; Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 605 for a ram in much the same style dated late 18th/early 19th century; and D.S. Howard, Choice of the Private Trader, p. 279, for three horses dated circa 1880.