Seated, the facial features and paws picked out in underglaze blue
6¹⁄₂ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Phillips, London, 11 September 1991, lot 527.
Purchased from Brian Haughton Antiques, London, June 2004.

D. Drakard, Limehouse Ware Revealed, The English Ceramic Circle in Collaboration with the Museum of London, 1993, dust jacket and p. 33, fig. 53.

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The present example is only one of two known of this rare cat form by Limehouse. See D. Drakard, op. cit., p. 33. fig. 53 for an illustration of this piece alongside a paw fragment found at the Limehouse factory excavation site (fig. 54) that precisely matches the model. The other known example was recently sold at Bonhams, London, 27 November 2024, lot 174 (£70,000).