A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE MODEL OF A CAT

CIRCA 1765

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A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE MODEL OF A CAT
Circa 1765
Of Whieldon-type, modelled seated on a plinth with tail wrapped around his hind left leg, splashed in brown and green, together with a toy size Staffordshire creamware teabowl and saucer, splashed in grey, green and brown
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high, the cat (3)

Lot Essay

See R.J. Charleston and Donald Towner, English Ceramics, 1580-1830, A Commemorative Catalogue to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the English Ceramics Circle 1927-1997, London, 1977, no. 65 for a similar model of a cat on plinth formerly in the Wilfred Evill Collection; also see Leslie Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware, 1650-1800, London, 1990, p. 335 for three related examples; See Major Cyril Earle, The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery, Hull, 1915, p. 102-103, no. 229-243 for similar toy teawares.

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