A Staffordshire creamware octagonal dovecote

CIRCA 1760

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A Staffordshire creamware octagonal dovecote
Circa 1760
Splashed in grey, green, brown and yellow glazes, the eight sides with stone quoins to each angle and fourteen apertures with arched brick lintels and each applied with a dove, the front with a door moulded with a man and child with the inscription A NEW PAVILION and a further dove vertically applied above, the tiled roof with button finial and applied with four doves, resting on a foliate platform, double-knopped stem and domed circular foot splashed in brown (the roof with two doves lacking and two restored replacements, one dove with head chipped and one lacking from platform, broken and repaired through stem, slight crack to base)
8½in. (22cm.) high

拍品專文

Cf. Leslie B. Grigsby, op. cit. (1990), pp. 404 and 405, no. 248. See also Frank Partridge, Ralph Wood Pottery: Mr Frank Partridge's Collection (n.d.), p. 61, no. 134 for the two examples now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (40.171.7 and 8) and also the example sold by Sotheby's, 25 Febrary 1986, lot 87. The example in the British Museum is illustrated by R.L. Hobson in his Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (1903), pl. 26, H2.