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A Pratt Ware Toby Fillpot plaque Circa 1790.
8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £660 inc. premium
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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
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
Footnotes
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
