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Lot 237*

A Lowestoft model of a cat, circa 1770

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Lowestoft model of a cat, circa 1770

Modelled seated on a green mound base, its fur realistically rendered with dark blackish-brown stripes, its belly and face left in the white with eyes, mouth and whiskers picked out in a somewhat indignant expression, 5.6cm high

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Provenance
Billie Pain Collection, Bonhams sale, 26 November 2003, lot 244
A private collection of British ceramic cats

Exhibited at The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar Loan exhibition in 1999, no.65. A similar cat and a corresponding mould excavated at the factory site are illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), p.133, pls.166A and B. Two further examples from the Sheila Davis Collection were sold by Phillips on 28 January 1999, lots 12 and 13.

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