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Lot 246

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

£3,000 - £4,000

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A documentary Cockpit Hill creamware jug

circa 1775
engraved and signed by Thomas Radford, the ovoid jug on a spreading foot transfer printed in black with 'Night Amusement' showing a group of four gentlemen drinking variously from a glass, a bowl and a mug, a music stand at one side bearing a sheet of music titled 'The Jolly Bowl', the print signed 'Radford Sculp', the reverse with a circular print of four putti enjoying the delights of the vine, also signed 'Radford Sculp', the jug inscribed beneath the lip 'Randle Andrews, Tong Park', 27.3cm high (chips to the spout, a section of the footrim lacking)

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Randle Andrews (c.1734-1793 was a Shropshire farmer who rented Tong Park farm, about 10 miles from Ironbridge. This impressive jug passed down by direct descent to the present owner. The photograph on this page shows Marian Andrews, the present owner's grandmother seated in her home in Eastbourne circa 1900, with this jug on a shelf behind. Thomas Radford was involved with the creamware manufactory at Cockpit Hill, and examples are recorded signed 'Radford Sc Derby Pot Works. The Derby factory closed in 1779 and Radford moved to Staffordshire where he is recorded still working as a printer in 1796

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