JVV 0413
Delft, 1725-1775
The moulded dog is sitting on a rectangular plinth with rounded back and has its head raised and its snout opened. Around its neck is a collar with bulbs/spheres. The white-glazed dog is unpainted.
Dimensions: height 22 cm / 8.66 in.
Similar examples
A white dog without a raised head but with the same collar is in the collection of the Art Museum The Hague (inv. no. 0256258).
Explanatory note
Dogs are - with cows, horses and parrots - the most frequently manufactured animals in eighteenth-century Dutch Delftware. They were put on the market in a great variety of shapes and colour combinations and were produced by nearly every Delftware pottery.
