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Lot 292

An important pair of Whieldon type creamware models of a cow and a bull, circa 1765

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An important pair of Whieldon type creamware models of a cow and a bull, circa 1765

Both modelled naturalistically in recumbent poses, their legs tucked under their bodies, the bull's tail flicked over its back, decorated beneath the cream coloured glaze with splashes of brown and grey, 13.5cm long (2)

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Provenance
Sampson and Horne Collection, Bonhams sale, 28 April 2010, lot 238

Exhibited by Jonathan Horne, 2005 Exhibition, catalogue no.05/24. These models derive from Meissen although it is possible the Staffordshire pottery examples were copied from either Chelsea or Derby versions. Similar earthenware models with a tortoiseshell glaze are in the Henry Weldon collection, see Leslie B Grigsby, English Pottery 1650-1800 (1990), fig.209.

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