£900
A John Rose Coalport 'Animal Service' dessert serving dish, circa 1800-05 of lobed oval form, painted with a circular panel of 'The Fallow Deer', dark-blue ground flanked by gilt stylised foliage, titled in red script to the reverse, 27.2cm wide Fallow Deer '...their rutting season arrives fifteen days or three weeks after that of the Stag. The males then bellow frequently, but with a low and interrupted voice. They are not so furious at this season as the stag, nor exhaust themselves by any uncommon ardour. They never leave their pasture in quest of the females, but generally fight with each other, till one buck becomes master of the field. They associate in herds, which sometimes divide in two parties, and maintain obstinate battles of the possession of some part of the park : Each party has its leader, which is always the oldest and strongest of the flock..." 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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