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Leo Kaplan Collection
This lot belongs to a distinctive group of Worcester dessert wares painted with animal subjects in a charmingly naive style. The print sources for some of the scenes have been traced to an illustrated edition of John Gay's fables, with engravings after John Wootton and William Kent. The main subject on the present lot is 'The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf' and this is taken from one of Bernard Baron's engravings from the 1727 edition, after John Wootton. For further information see John Sandon, Worcester Porcelain at Cheekwood (2008), pp.52-53. Another tureen and cover from the service in the Museum of Royal Worcester features one of the dogs used on the stand of the present lot