GROUP OF ENGLISH DRY-BODIED STONEWARE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £250 - £350
Auction: Session One - Wednesday 19th February at 10am
Description
comprising three buff jugs, one with a cover, each with double scroll handles, with applied white stoneware decoration depicting to one side putti on a chariot being led by dogs, and to the reverse putti aiming bows and arrows, impressed WILSON, covered jug inscribed 23; a Spode white covered hot water jug with engine turned detail in a basket weave pattern, with green band borders, impressed SPODE; two graduated Wilson brown and white jugs each decorated with a hunting scene known as ‘The Kill’, impressed WILSON; a Herculaneum cream and buff covered bowl decorated with a classical figural frieze, impressed HERCULANEUM; a cream Tuner mug with brown bands and a cream and brown Spode mug, each moulded with a hunting scene, impressed TURNER and SPODE (9)
Dimensions
Wilson cover buff hot water jug 16.3cm high, Spode brown and cream mug 8.6cm high
Provenance
The Maisels Collection of British Ceramics
Footnote
For a reference relating to Wilson buff jugs see Edwards and Hampson, 'Dry-Bodied Stoneware of the British Isles', Fig 245.
David Maisels believed that the white engine turned Spode covered hot water pot was rare and that no other examples of a pot in this style had been recorded.
The Wilson buff hot water pot has a label for John Howard Antiques.
The smaller brown and cream Wilson jug has a paper label for the Nancy Gunson Collection, No. 107