Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 172
A Lowestoft white model of a pug dog, circa 1760
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,500 - £2,000
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Jim Peake
Head of Department
Fergus Gambon
Director
A Lowestoft white model of a pug dog, circa 1760
The animal modelled seated on a rectangular base with its head turned to the right, its collar secured with a rosette, 8.3cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
With Jupiter Antiques, 2009
Literature
White, Mary, Beasts at the Whites' House, Vol.1, 2020, p.43
This rare model is only rarely found in white, most being decorated with patches of manganese or enamelled in a more naturalistic style, see that illustrated by Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, Vol.2, 1985, pl.19a, figs.103 and 104 and the example from the Gordon and Lorna Turner Collection sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2021, lot 423. Initially attributed to Longton Hall, corresponding fragments recovered from the Lowestoft factory site in 1967 suggested a Lowestoft attribution and the highly phosphatic body disproves a Staffordshire origin. For further discussion see John Howell, 'Lowestoft Manganese-Decorated Animals', ECC Trans, Vol.13, Pt.3, 1989, pp.183-4 and pls.167-9. A similar example was sold by Bonhams on 23 June 2021, lot 198 together with the companion model, seated with head turned to the left, lot 199. For a different model of a pug dog by Bow, see lot 172 in this sale.