A RARE DELFTWARE HARE OR LEVERET

A RARE DELFTWARE HARE OR LEVERET

DUTCH OR ENGLISH, 18TH CENTURY

cast in the solid, modelled resting with cast details to its eyes, ears, ruff and feet, highlighted in blue, on an octagonal base with a band of dots

12cm long

Provenance

The Angus MacDonald Collection.

Phillips, Good European Ceramics, Glass and Enamel, 9 September 1992, lot 248.

A Private Northern Ireland Collection.

Catalogue Note

This model of a resting leveret or hare does not appear to have any direct comparables. 'Dated English Delftware' by Lipski and Archer illustrates a number of models of other animals, including cats and dogs but 18th century models of hares are extremely rare in any ceramic material from either country of origin. Bonhams have recently offered one, described as English, as lot 94 on 19 November 2025 that sold for £10,000, and another on 23 June 2021, lot 63 and a salt glazed stoneware example on 29 September 2020, lot 110. Christie's offered a creamware leveret as part of the Price Glover Collection on 14th June 1988, lot 109 and Sotheby's sold another white saltglaze model of a hare as part of the Rous Lench Collection on 1st July 1986, lot 126.