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An interesting English porcelain jug and an earthenware plate Circa 1805.
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Possibly Torksey, the jug painted in colours with a ruinous castle, the reverse with a house by a tower, the monogram 'WW' in gold under the spout, 14.2cm high, the plate painted with a rural landscape within brown line borders, 19.9cm diam (2)
Footnotes
Excavations on the Torksey site have produced a large number of shards. Some follow the La Courtille shapes found on the Dr Boot service and others are closely related to Pinxton forms. See Roy E Chapman, William Billingsley at Brampton in Torksey, Welsh Ceramics in Context, Part I, p 179. Two generally accepted pieces are the Durham Ox jug and the W Sharpe jug illustrated by C L Exley, A History of the Torksey and Mansfield China Factories, pp 52 and 56. An earthenware jug illustrated on p 63(2) has some similarities in shape to the present lot and is painted in very similar style with a view of 'Torksey Castle'. Another related porcelain jug is illustrated by C Barry Sheppard, Pinxton Porcelain 1795-1813, fig 270, p 247. A label on the base of this jug suggests that it was part of a group of porcelains left by Billingsley with a relative when passing through Derby in 1808. See C L Exley, op cit, p 16. See also p 41 for a group of earthenwares possibly related to the plate
Saleroom notices
Please note, the jug in this lot was made by Machin. It is not Torksey as suggested in the catalogue.