CIRCA 1750, PERHAPS LONDON

Details

A TIN-GLAZED WHITE MODEL OF A BARN OWL
CIRCA 1750, PERHAPS LONDON
Modelled perched astride a conical base, its wings slightly outstretched and its head half-turned to the right, minute flaking to ears and slight chipping to base
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired from Jonathan Horne, 25 February 2003.

Literature

Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery (London, 2003), cat. no. 03/12.

Exhibited

Jonathan Horne, March 2003, Exhibtion Catalogue, no. 03/12.

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Lot Essay

Two other recorded examples of this model exist. One was exhibited by Garry Atkins 'An Exhibition of English Pottery 1650 - 1800', Exhibition Catalogue, March 12th-19th 1991, no. 3, where he suggests a Liverpool attribution. The other, formerly in Lord Revelstoke's Collection and thought to date from the 17th Century date, is illustrated in Ross E. Taggart, 'The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery', Exhibition Catalogue, Kansas City, Missouri, 1967, no. 103.

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