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Lot 297

An important English porcelain jug painted by William Billingsley
Circa 1799-1808.

8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,500 - £2,000

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An important English porcelain jug painted by William Billingsley

Circa 1799-1808.
Painted and possibly potted at Torksey, a fluted band around the foot and the cylindrical neck finely turned, the distinctive handle with a leaf-shaped terminal, inner spur and moulded 'clip' to the upper terminal, painted in sepia monochrome with a country house within a fenced garden, the reverse with a more modest hilltop dwelling, a ruinous building in the foreground, a gilded 'B' below the spout and sepia and gold border around the rim, 20cm high (haircrack to neck, spout restored)

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From excavations, it seems that porcelain was made at Torksey. See Roy E Chapman, William Billingsley at Brampton in Torksey, Welsh Ceramics in Context, Part I, p 179. The shape of this jug is closely related to others with an accepted Torksey origin, especially the 'Durham Ox' jug illustrated by C L Exley, A History of the Torksey and Mansfield China Manufactories, p 57 and inscribed 'Brampton'. Compare the sepia panels with those on the Dr Boot service, particularly the country house on the coffee pot illustrated by C L Exley, op cit, p 27. Panels in similar style are found on a jug dated 1806, and on another service left at Derby by Billingsley in 1808. See also the fine part service sold in these rooms on 9 March 2005, lots 242 and 243, painted with views of Park Hall near Mansfield Woodhouse.

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