CIRCA 1752

细节

A Chelsea silver-shaped fable plate
Circa 1752
Painted by Jefferyes Hammett O'Neale with a wolf and a goat in an extensive mountainous river landscape, the underfed brown wolf in the foreground looking up to the black and white goat behind a picket fence atop a cliff on the other side of the river, the moulded border with a bouquet of scattered flower-sprays and a dragon-fly, divided by three moulded thumbpieces edged in brown, shaped brown line rim (crack to the rim at 11 o'clock, some very minor wear to enamels in well of plate)
9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm.) wide

来源

The Property of the Lt. Colonel R. Sully, sale Sotheby's, 25 July 1961, lot 147.
James A. MacHarg.
Perhaps once in the Collection of Mr and Mrs T.D. Barclay, Higham.
Bought from Winifred Williams, London, November 1982.

注意事项

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拍品专文

A saucer painted with the same subject is illustrated by William H. Tapp, Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale 1734-1801 (London, 1938), pl. 16, fig. 38; another saucer and a teapot, from the Collection of the late Miss Margaret MacHarg were sold Sotheby's, 16 May 1961, lots 153 and 154.

There was a goat grazing up high on a cliff. At the bottom of the cliff there was a wolf who wanted to catch the goat and eat her. Since it was impossible for the wolf to climb up the cliff, he stood down below and said to the goat, 'You poor creature! Why have you left the level plains and meadows in order to graze upon the cliff? Are you trying to tempt death from that height?' The goat said to the wolf in response, 'I know how often I have managed to frustrate you! What makes you think that you can now get me to come down off this cliff so that you can eat me for dinner?' Fable 100, transcribed from Aesop's Fables, A New Translation by Laura Gibbs (Oxford, 2002).