GROUP OF ENGLISH DRY-BODIED STONEWARE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
£120
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, together with a pair of small buff Wilson tapersticks, 8.5cm high; a SPODE BUFF INKWELL with classical figures, 5.3cm high; a small WILSON BUFF POT POURRI BASKET with cover, decorated with a floral frieze, 6.7cm high (13)
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