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Two London stoneware models of the pug dog 'Trump', dated 1815 and 1816

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £612 inc. premium

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Two London stoneware models of the pug dog 'Trump', dated 1815 and 1816

by William Murray after the lost terracotta by Roubiliac, Hogarth's famous dog modelled recumbent upon an octagonal base, moulded and finished by hand with undercutting and incised decoration, 11.9 and 12cm wide, one signed 'W Murray London Nov 9th 1815', the other impressed 'WILLIAM MURRAY 1816 LONDON' (2)

Footnotes

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.

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