Live Auction 5205Christie's Interiors - Master & Makers
AN ENGLISH PRATT WARE DOUBLE MONEY-BOX
Lot 393

AN ENGLISH PRATT WARE DOUBLE MONEY-BOX

CIRCA 1800-20

Closed25 February 2014

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GBP 4,750

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AN ENGLISH PRATT WARE DOUBLE MONEY-BOX
CIRCA 1800-20
Modelled as an elephant sponged with patches of black, and decorated with blue and ochre 'targets', with black ears, trunk and feet, supporting a crenellated turret on its back, standing on a stepped rectangular base
8.1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) high

With Jonathan Horne Antiques.

Specialist note

See John and Griselda Lewis Pratt Ware (Woodbridge, 1984), p. 277 pl. 65 for a Pratt ware model of a 'circus elephant with passengers'. Although not a money-box, the elephant is of the same form.