A rare Bow porcelain model of a cat c.1755-58

A rare Bow porcelain model of a cat c.1755-58, seated on its haunches with a mouse in one paw, the other paw resting on a blue mound into which a second mouse is scurrying, the cat's coat picked out with tabby markings in purplish grey, seated on a low scrolling base, 8cm.

Cf. The Fitzwilliam Museum, accession no. C.3055-1928 for a similar example from the Glaisher Collection.