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Lot 30

A Pratt Ware Toby Fillpot plaque
Circa 1790.

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

Sold for £660 inc. premium

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A Pratt Ware Toby Fillpot plaque

Circa 1790.
Circular, modelled in relief with the portly gentleman seated by a table, a foaming jug in one hand, a pipe in the other, amongst four smaller reliefs comprising two of putti, another of a man seated beside a barrel and a classical scene of the 'Marriage of Cupid and Psyche', all brightly coloured in typical palette within an ochre frame, 23.8cm diam

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A similar plaque is illustrated by John and Griselda Lewis, Pratt Ware (1984), p 191, together with an engraving of Toby Fillpot 'The Brown Jug' published by Robert Dighton in 1761, to illustrate a poem. The subject is said to be a Yorkshire man called Henry Elwes who was reputed to have drunk 2,000 gallons of ale. The engraving was the inspiration for a relief design by Turner copied by the Pratt Ware potters

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