A Rare 19thC Scottish Pearlware Figure of a Seated Cat c.1830
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Origin: Scottish
Period: William IV
Provenance: Unknown
Date: c.1830
Width: 3.5”
Height: 7”
Depth: 3”
The attractive seated pearlware cat of Scottish origins, on its haunches, its tail curling towards its front paws with the head turned to the right, its coat sponged in Portobello type colours of green pink and yellow, raised on a cushion, and surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
The piece is in super order, there is only one small chip to one corner of the cushion base as photographed.
Pearlware is essentially creamware with an improved and enhanced inclusion of cobalt in its glaze recipe, which produced a most desirable – though elegantly subtle – bluey tinge, applied to a slightly less-white body. Colouration was applied directly to the substrate with sponges, then glazed and fired, producing ‘tortoise-shell’ finishes; combinations of plumbate powders and similarly-reduced metallic oxides were artfully combined during the firing process to create shimmering, iridescent colour-ways
A delightful piece in great colours.
