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A very similarly modelled white saltglaze model of a hare from the Rous Lench Collection was sold by Sotheby's on 1 July 1986, lot 126. A comparable solid agate model of a rabbit was sold at lot 128 in the same sale. Compare also to the white version sold by Sotheby's on 5 June 1962, lot 40 and the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession no. 34.165.23). It is interesting to note that a hare seemingly from the same mould appears in contemporary Liverpool porcelain as the finial on the cover of a Richard Chaffers tureen in the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession no. C.327&A-1940), illustrated by Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain (2011), p.210, fig.5.169.