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TWO STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZED AGATEWARE MODELS OF CATS
Lot 248 THE PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST COLLECTOR

TWO STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZED AGATEWARE MODELS OF CATS

CIRCA 1750

Closed19 April 2012

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TWO STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZED AGATEWARE MODELS OF CATS
CIRCA 1750
Each striped brown tabby modeled seated, one with a molded collar about its neck, the other with blue spots and pricked ears, a mouse in its mouth
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high, the collared tabby (2)

The Charles J. Lomax Collection; Sotheby's, London, 3 May 1940, lot 56, to Fowler (the collared tabby, with collection sticker).

Specialist note

For examples of saltglazed agateware cats in the Burnap Collection, R. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, 1967, pp.104-5, nos. 362, 363 and 364. Also see p. 28, nos. 30 and 31 for two earlier Staffordshire cats also from the Lomax Collection.