Lot 165 , Two Samuel Alcock porcelain groups of a seated cat and kitten, c.1840-50, 6.7cm and 6.3cm, minor faults

Two Samuel Alcock porcelain groups of a seated cat and kitten, c.1840-50, each scrollwork bases, in mustard yellow, unmarked and the rarer cobalt blue, impressed '2', 6.7cm and 6.3cm, minor faults
Estimate £180-220

cf. Dennis G. Rice, Dogs in English Porcelain of the 19th century, colour plate 39.

The first group on the mustard yellow coloured base, both ears of the cat have a slight caramel colour to them where they have caught in the kiln and the cat's left ear has a small chip to it, there is some slight speckling to the glaze on the base and there is a very small splinter chip to the edge of the foot which has gone into a fracture with some brown staining around it on the inside of the foot, just around from this there is another splinter chip on the inside of the foot, not visible when the group is standing. No restoration detected.
The second group on the cobalt blue base appears to be in good condition with very slight wear to the gilt line around the base and remnants of a sticky label to the underside


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Sold for £340