Live Auction 7850Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A GERMAN FAYENCE CAT BOX AND COVER
Lot 172

A GERMAN FAYENCE CAT BOX AND COVER

THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY LESUM OR HANNOVERSCH MÜNDEN

Closed10 June 2010

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GBP 5,250

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A GERMAN FAYENCE CAT BOX AND COVER
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY LESUM OR HANNOVERSCH MÜNDEN
Modelled in a recumbent pose, with manganese features, its eyes enriched in yellow (slight chipping, restoration to ears, hairline crack to rim)
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) long

Specialist note

For a box in the form of a recumbent dog in the Gewerbemuseum, Bremen, see August Stoehr, Deutsche Fayencen und Deutsches Steingut (Berlin, 1920), p. 492, fig. 230, where it is attributed to Lesum.