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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  February 2015 Antique and Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  24 Feb 2015 ~ 10am (NZ time) (Lots 1 - 263)
  24 Feb 2015 ~ 5pm (NZ time) (Lots 280 - 631)
• Lot #:
  188
• Lot Description:
  A rare Doulton mouse group by George Tinworth
  celebrating the ‘Gunpowder Plot’, depicting a central mouse representing a behatted Guy Fawkes carrying a lantern, seated between two supporting characters; the domed plinth base inscribed: ‘I see no reason, why gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot’. Artist’s monogram incised to rear and factory mark impressed beneath. Tiny chip to one ear. Height 120.
• Notes:
  Note:U.K. ceramic historian and author Peter Rose published a list of known Tinworth mouse/frog groups in the Royal Doulton International Collectors Club magazine in 1989 where an example of ‘Gunpowder Treason’ was illustrated; this is the only other referenced version of this model known and the only known example to have come on the auction market. (See staff for further information).
• Estimate:
  NZ$4,800 - 4,800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Ceramics & Porcelain

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