The Contents of Keerweder

Live Auction, 22 - 23 October 2012

Session 1

Sold for

ZAR 10 539
Lot 154
  • Dorothy Kay, 'White Cat', 1952


Lot Estimate
ZAR 10 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 10 539
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About this Item

South Africa 1886-1964
Dorothy Kay, 'White Cat', 1952 an earthenware white-glazed model of a seated cat, with yellow eyes and a garland of flowers around its neck, the inside of the mould signed and dated in blue paint, 25cm high

Literature

Marjorie Reynolds, Dorothy Kay, Everything You Do is a Portrait of Yourself, Alec Marjorie Reynolds, Rosebank, 1989, page 250, where this cat is discussed:

'Two early ceramics were clamoured for by cat lovers. The first (1951), untitled but known as Decorated Cat , is an almost life-size chocolate brown cat.....The second, White Cat, is similar in form, but in contrast it is in white glaze but for the pale colours of its garland and its yellow-green eyes with black slit pupils. Surprisingly, it is signed 'D Kay, 1952' as one would have guessed it to be the earlier of the two'.

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