Auction Closed
January 25, 03:59 AM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sold Without Reserve
AN ENGLISH PEARLWARE LARGE MODEL OF A CASTLE, CIRCA 1820-30
modeled as a two turreted castle with a central clock tower, the main keep modeled with a door to each side
width 14 ⅞ in.; height 11 ⅜ in.
37.6 cm; 28.7
Major Cyril Earle Collection (by 1915), whose collectsion was sold at Charles Butters & Sons, Hanley Stoke-on-Trent, 27-29 May 1919
Phillips London, 3 December 1986, lot 108
Major Cyril Earle, The Earle Collection of Early English Staffordshire Pottery, London, 1915, pp. 234-235, no. 738
A further example of this rare model was sold at Christie's London, 27 April 2010, lot 235 and a third was sold at Christie's London, 2 June 1986, lot 71. When published in 1915 and sold in 1986 the present example had a central spire, now missing
