It’s the subject that attracted me to this one, which is a framed English Prattware pot lid, c. 1860, made after a print by Henry Edwin Landseer I believe. “Prattware” refers to the underglaze polychrome printing process, invented in 1847 by Felix Pratt of Fenton, Staffordshire, and making use of three color plates plus a black key plate. The image has a fantastic sharpness and clarity to it, and of course I love this kindly wolf defying its nature to come to the rescue of the injured ram, which, easy to miss at first, has one eye open, staring out right at us.
In an ebonized wooden frame, with loop on the back for hanging. There is a hairline crack running up from the bottom to edge to the mouth of the ram, and light crazing. On the reverse is visible some very old loss top the rim of the lid, no real matter. Stable in its frame, and the frame is in very good condition.
Framed: 5 7/8” w and t x 1 5/8” d. Sight: 4” in diameter.
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