PORCELAIN CAT FIGURAL MINIATURE LAMP, creamy white with green sponge-like decoration to head and base, sitting in upright position on a brown decorated pillow, underside of base inscribed "42351", period collar. Fitted with a period burner, opaque white conical-form chimney-shade. Fourth quarter 19th/early 20th century. 8 3/8" H to top of chimney-shade, 5 1/4" H to top of collar, 2 3/4" x 3" SQ overall base.
Literature: Hulsebus - Miniature Victorian Lamps, p. 92, fig. 249.
Provenance: The collection of Larry Spradley, Beaumont, TX.

Undamaged and with overall light crazing, underside edges of base with some as-made roughness and a loss.