£140
A John Rose Coalport 'Animal Service' dessert plate, circa 1800-05 The Mongoose Lemur, the dark-blue ground flanked by gilt stylised foliage, the centre painted with the animal in a grassy landscape, untitled, dark blue ground with border gilding of a sparser type, 22.2cm diameter (gilding worn) "The Mongoose is nearly the same size as the Ring-tailed Macauco. Its fur is fine, soft, and woolly, of a deep brownish colour; the eyes are of a beautiful orange colour, surrounded with black, the ears are short; cheeks white; end of the nose black; the tail very long; and covered with hair of the same sort and colour of the body; its hands and feet are naked; and of a dusty colour, its nails, except one upon the inner toe of each hind foot are flat..." Bewick, Thomas, Ralph Beilby, 1800. A General History of Quadrupeds : The Figures Engraved on Wood. Newcastle upon Tyne, S. Hodgson, R. Beilby, & T. Bewick.
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