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In 1995 one painted with thistles sold for £8600; in 2000
one painted with typical cabbage roses sold for £9600 followed by
another decorated with thistles that sold the following year for
£10,500. Prices then took a substantial leap forward last year when
an example painted with shamrock sold for £16,000, a record for any
Wemyss pig.
However, if anyone believed that prices must have reached
some sort of zenith they were wrong.
This slumbering porker, decorated with two apples on a leafy
branch, marked with a yellow script mark and applied with a paper
label detailing its part in the Rogers de Rin Wemyss Ware
exhibition at Thomas Goode and Co in 1987, was one of two of the
coveted model offered at this year's Gleneagles sale on August 31.
It had some minor restoration but was the subject of fierce
competition between two bidders, selling at £29,000 (plus 20 per
cent buyer's premium). The remarkable price was matched again later
in the sale by another sleeping piglet of the same model painted
with cabbage roses and a green script mark, which, despite a faint
hair crack to right ear, also trebled its £8000-10,000
estimate.