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Of large size and octagonal form, painted by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale with Aesop's fable the 'Mouse and the Bull', the mouse taunting the bull having just bitten him and scurrying for cover, set within a continuous landscape, with a beetle, a caterpillar and a floral sprig painted with the interior below the brown line rim, 8.6cm wide
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Literature
White, Mary, 'Luxury porcelain decoration in London 1750-55: O'Neale and London Ateliers', ECC Trans, Vol.30, 2019, p.42, fig.19
White, Mary, Beasts at the Whites' House, Vol.1, 2020, p.136
A slightly different composition of the same fable scene is painted by O'Neale on a Chelsea saucer in Colonial Williamsburg, see John C Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg 1977, p.77, fig.61.