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Lot 34
8 June 2005, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,840 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn interesting Kingston type medieval anthropomorphic jug
late 14th/early 15th century
modelled as a naive and amusing figure of a man with a large nose and chin, his arms modelled in coiled clay with one hand held up against his cheek, decorated in a green glaze, 12.3cm (typical degradation to glaze)
modelled as a naive and amusing figure of a man with a large nose and chin, his arms modelled in coiled clay with one hand held up against his cheek, decorated in a green glaze, 12.3cm (typical degradation to glaze)
Footnotes
Provenance: found by workmen on the shore of the River Thames during the construction on the Ford car factory at Dagenham. Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey is known to have produced high quality white wares, including 'face-on-front' jugs of this type. See Jeremy Haslam, Medieval Pottery, p. 22 and fig. 17, no. 3.
