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5 July 2005, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £960 inc. premium

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A Staffordshire jug commemorating Admiral Rodney and the Battle of the Saints

circa 1782
creamware of swelling shape, decorating in tortoiseshell combed and juggled slips, the rims green, applied with named sprigs of Lord Hood and Lord Rodney, a medallion below the spout with the French flagship captured by Rodney, the Ville de Paris, 12.6cm (restored)

Footnotes

On 12th April 1782, Admiral Rodney and his second-in-command Hood defeated the French fleet under the command of the Comte de Grasse at Les Saintes in the West Indies. A jug with similar sprigs is in the National Maritime Museum, see Rina Prentice, A Celebration of the Sea, fig. 39

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