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Louis-François Roubiliac (1705-1762) modelled the original terracotta on which these models are based. Plaster moulds from Roubiliac's studio were purchased by Richard Parker who sold a cast of a pug dog to Wedgwood in 1774. The present lot closely follows a small version made in Chelsea porcelain, see John Mallet's paper, Hogarth's Pug in Porcelain, V&A Bulletin (1971), figs.9 and 10. See also Lars Tharp, Hogarth's China (1997), although William Murray's version of Trump is not apparently recorded.