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Lot 118
A very rare Bow model of a red squirrel, circa 1752-54
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23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£8,000 - £10,000
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A very rare Bow model of a red squirrel, circa 1752-54
Naturalistically modelled, seated on its haunches gnawing at a nut clasped in its front paws, an impressive tail arched along its back, its fur simulated with fine brushstrokes of enamel in tones of red, its eyes, whiskers and paws picked out in black, on a shallow mound base, 13cm high
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Provenance
With Simon Spero
Distinguished Private Collection
Exhibited
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A similar version of this model enamelled in brown was in Simon Spero's 2012 exhibition, no.16. This model seems to be based on a white Chelsea model produced during the Triangle Period. An example from circa 1746 in the British Museum (acc. no. 1887,0307,II.7) is illustrated by Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain (2001), p.35, fig.3.20, who suggests that it probably derives from a Meissen original. The model was reissued at Bow in the late 1750s and 1760s on scrolled bases, see the pair illustrated by Frank Stoner, Chelsea, Bow and Derby Porcelain Figures (1955), pl.110, the example sold by Sotheby's on 9 April 1999, lot 289 and that sold by Bonhams on 29 September 2020, lot 151. Miniature versions of this model were also produced at Bow, see for example that from the Billie Pain Collection sold by Bonhams on 26 November 2003, lot 38.
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