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Lot 245

8 June 2005, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £4,800 inc. premium

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A highly important Caughley 'Ironbridge' jug

dated 1790
of cabbage leaf moulded shape with a mask spout, printed in blue on both sides with a 'Severn Trow' passing underneath the Shropshire Ironbridge, an angler in the foreground, the front inscribed in bright blue with a cipher RA and date 1790 among flower sprigs, the rim also edged in bright blue, 19cm, S mark

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Provenance: made for Randle Andrews of Tong Park Farm, and passed down the family by direct descent to the present owner. Tong Park stands about 10 miles from the bridge depicted on this jug. A small number of special Ironbridge jugs are recorded with names or monograms inscribed beneath the lip. A list of these is given in an article about the present jug in the Caughley Society Newsletter, no. 17, March 2004, pp. 25-28

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