Sale 9350
London, South Kensington
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28 March 2002
Price realised
GBP 822
Estimate
A spill vase group of Mezeppa on a Zebra Mezeppa modelled bound to the back of the zebra, crossing a bridge pursued by three hounds, well coloured, on a mound upon a shaped oval gilt-line base, circa 1860 (very minor damages and flaking to enamels) -- 33cm. high See illustration
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Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. E427, fig. 214.
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