Lot 3 | A WOOD FAMILY PEARLWARE ELEPHANT SPILL VASE CIRCA 1785
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the elephant modelled standing before a tree stump with two branches forming a triple-section vase. Minor restoration, minor chips.
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The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Victor, sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, March 10, 1978, lot 37
CATALOGUE NOTE
A similar elephant spill vase is in the collection of the City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent and is illustrated by Pat Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840, p. 59. Another similar elephant is illustrated by Frank Falkner, The Wood Family of Burslem, pl. XV, no. 69.
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