A ROCKINGHAM BISCUIT FIGURE OF A RATTER AND A DETACHABLE CAGE, the dog standing looking down at a rat crouching beneath a detachable pierced rectangular cage with a run at one end, before a tree-stump with foliage issuing from the base, on a shaped rectangular rockwork base applied with moss (minor chips to rat's ears, slight repairs to spokes of cage), impressed griffin, Rockingham Works Brameld and incised No. 89 marks, circa 1830, on an oval ebonised and plush stand and with a glass dome (dome cracked)

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A ROCKINGHAM BISCUIT FIGURE OF A RATTER AND A DETACHABLE CAGE, the dog standing looking down at a rat crouching beneath a detachable pierced rectangular cage with a run at one end, before a tree-stump with foliage issuing from the base, on a shaped rectangular rockwork base applied with moss (minor chips to rat's ears, slight repairs to spokes of cage), impressed griffin, Rockingham Works Brameld and incised No. 89 marks, circa 1830, on an oval ebonised and plush stand and with a glass dome (dome cracked)
the group 12.5cm. long (4)

拍品专文

Cf. the example sold in these Rooms on 20 October 1986, lot 298 and illustrated by D.G. Rice, 'Rockingham Porcelain Figures', Collector's Guide, pl. 15; also D.G. Rice, English Porcelain Animals of the 19th Century, p. 121, fig. 97

This would appear to be the only recorded example including a cage