A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE MODEL OF A DOVECOTE, CIRCA 1755,

The form of the present dovecote apears to derive from Staffordshire white salt-glazed stoneware, in particular the teawares modelled as Georgian brick houses, see Diana Edward and Rodney Hampson, White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles, Woodbridge 2005, p. 85, col. pl. 56. A similar dovecote was sold in these Rooms, 25th February 1986, lot 87, and is probably the example in the Henry H. Weldon Collection, see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800, London, 1990, pp. 404-5, no. 248. Another similar example was sold in these Rooms, 21st July 1981, lot 55. A further model of a dovecote with a plain tapering foot was sold in these Rooms, 25th May 1993, lot 202. A related form with a domed foot is in the collection of the British Museum, see R. L. Hobson, Catalogue of the Collecton of English Pottery in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum, London, 1903, p. 195, no. H2, pl. XXVI where the author refers to a similar model lost in the Alexandra Palace fire of 1873. A similar example with a domed foot was sold in these Rooms 19th November 1991, lot 103 and two are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. nos. 40.171.7-8, donated by Mrs. Francis P. Garvan in 1940 who acquired them from Frank Partidge in 1923.