On the base it reads: S.T.DES. Dennis China Works. CW 2000 No. 48 Intitials are MJ Height: 5.25" Condition is Perfect, MINT. A must for every collection. The Dennis China Works was launched in 1985 to make ceramics for collectors. Sally and Richard Dennis re-started the works in 1993 after reviving Moorcroft pottery for the previous six years. Sally Tuffin, well known and well thought of for her Moorcroft designs, has moved art pottery forward with her new Dennis China Works designs influenced by the arts and crafts movement and nature.The simple generous shapes of vases, jugs, plates and bowls are hand thrown on the wheel and carefully turned by Rory Mcleod and Jon GrayThe decorating team led by Vanessa Whitemore include Louise Norris, Heidi Warr, Sarah Leeson and Tania Pike. Each pot is individually hand decorated using traditional sliptrailing and incising and then painted with underglaze pigments, building up layers of colour. Finally all pieces are signed and numbered.This is an opportunity to purchase low numbered pieces of a pottery at the start of a long history of creativity in design.

The inspiration of Exmoor, Dartmoor and the countryside around Exeter has given new impetus to his interest in depicting the badgers, foxes and voles that his naturalist's eye observes everywhere. His animals are always rooted in the soil, as much a part of the landscape as the sky and the trees. He rare ability to give to each of them their unique characteristics and personas, while dressing them up in old cast off human garments never robs them of their intrinsic "animalness". Although rooted in the heritage of English illustration it is Jonathan's unerring draughtsman ship and his humour that nevertheless makes his work unmistakably contemporary.

The inspiration of Exmoor, Dartmoor and the countryside around Exeter has given new impetus to his interest in depicting the badgers, foxes and voles that his naturalist's eye observes everywhere. His animals are always rooted in the soil, as much a part of the landscape as the sky and the trees. He rare ability to give to each of them their unique characteristics and personas, while dressing them up in old cast off human garments never robs them of their intrinsic "animalness". Although rooted in the heritage of English illustration it is Jonathan's unerring draughtsman ship and his humour that nevertheless makes his work unmistakably contemporary.

O'Klein produced a series of caricature scenes which typically featured Dogs and/or Cats, with the typical theme being tame sexual friction between Male and Female Dogs, or Cats humorously tormenting Dogs who are trying to relieve themselves. In once scene a smirking cat sits high on a wall after having "fenced in" the local Dogs' favourite watering tree while a series of Dogs grimace in frustration. In another scene a Cat high on a wall torments a series of Dogs of different breeds as they relieve themselves against a wall while standing on their hind legs, pre 1920 work tends to be less risqué, this piece would date to circa 1930.

O'Klein produced a series of caricature scenes which typically featured Dogs and/or Cats, with the typical theme being tame sexual friction between Male and Female Dogs, or Cats humorously tormenting Dogs who are trying to relieve themselves. In once scene a smirking cat sits high on a wall after having "fenced in" the local Dogs' favourite watering tree while a series of Dogs grimace in frustration. In another scene a Cat high on a wall torments a series of Dogs of different breeds as they relieve themselves against a wall while standing on their hind legs, pre 1920 work tends to be less risqué, this piece would date to circa 1930.

O'Klein produced a series of caricature scenes which typically featured Dogs and/or Cats, with the typical theme being tame sexual friction between Male and Female Dogs, or Cats humorously tormenting Dogs who are trying to relieve themselves. In once scene a smirking cat sits high on a wall after having "fenced in" the local Dogs' favourite watering tree while a series of Dogs grimace in frustration. In another scene a Cat high on a wall torments a series of Dogs of different breeds as they relieve themselves against a wall while standing on their hind legs, pre 1920 work tends to be less risqué, this piece would date to circa 1930.