Lot 347
  • 347

RARE STAFFORDSHIRE LEAD-GLAZED CREAM-COLORED EARTHENWARE GROUP OF A WATER BUFFALO AND BOY CIRCA 1750-70

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • LEAD-GLAZED EARTHENWARE
  • Length 8 1/2 in.
Possibly Thomas Whieldon, Fenton Vivian, the boy reclining on its back holding an open jar.

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, October 13, 1969, lot 63;
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Victor, October 3, 1978, lot 45;
Ginsburg & Levy, Inc., New York;
Jonathan Horne Antiques, Ltd., London.

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Turned and Thrown: English Pottery 1660-1820 from Local Collections, March 29-July 27, 2008.

Condition

Both ears and horns restored; minor small chip to the edge of one hoof.
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Catalogue Note

A similar group is illustrated in Peter Williams and Pat Halfpenny, A Passion for Pottery, Further Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection, p. 287, no. 195, where another similar example in the collection of the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, is illustrated on the preceding page with a matching fragment of the model's leg excavated from Whieldon's Fenton Vivian factory site.