Recently a client asked me about the oddest little porcelain
piece she had ever seen. She wanted to gift it to her infant daughter.
The object of desire was a sweet Chinese-export porcelain
cat "night light" like the ones photographed here. Made in
China during the Kangxi period (1662 - 1722) the story goes that these
porcelain cats were made to keep mice and rats away. Imagine the menacing
glaring glow of the figurine’s eyes once you drop a candle inside. Petrifying!!!
Buying one of these is a minor investment and certainly not
in the price realm of a Disney princess nightlight … but it’s something that
can be treasured and will look just as beautiful 30 years from now when it’s
sitting on a bookshelf in the daughter's library, or indeed, maybe even
protecting her own child’s nighttime slumbers.
image credits (top to bottom): Sotheby’s; Christie's
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