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A PAIR OF PEARLWARE MODELS OF LIONS
Lot 27 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF RICHARD T. KANTER

A PAIR OF PEARLWARE MODELS OF LIONS

CIRCA 1790, PROBABLY YORKSHIRE

Closed21 January 2011

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A PAIR OF PEARLWARE MODELS OF LIONS
CIRCA 1790, PROBABLY YORKSHIRE
Of Pratt type, the male standing with its right fore paw on a ball, the female similarly posed with her left fore paw on a ball, each on a rectangular base, the top sponged in green, the sides in blue and ochre on a trailing vine.
7 1/4 in. long (2)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 29 January 1987, lot 1 (purchased through Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbrigdge Incorporated, New York).

Specialist note

For another example of this rarely found pair, now in the collection of the City Art Gallery and Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, see John and Griselda Lewis, Pratt Ware 1740-1840, 1984, p. 281 top.