Sale 5153
London, South Kensington
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30 October 2007
Price realised
GBP 438
Estimate
AN ENGLISH PORCELAIN MODEL OF A HOUND EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY DERBY Naturalistically modelled standing before a tree stump, its tail outstretched, with black markings and spots, on shaped oval mound base 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) wide
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Cf. D.G. Rice, English Porcelain Animals of the 19th Century (Suffolk, 1990), p. 99, fig. 77 for a similar Derby model of a pointer.
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