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Lot 44
A Ralph Wood Satyr jug Circa 1785.
8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £660 inc. premium
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Circa 1785.
Modelled as the head of a bearded satyr, garlanded with fruiting vines below a scrolling rim, the lip with a small maskhead flanked by two goats' heads, the handle with a half-length figure of a man clutching a bottle, coloured in pale glazes, 20.5cm high, impressed 'Ra Wood Burslem' and '53' (restored lip, upper terminal and man's head of handle restored, crack in satyr's nose)
Modelled as the head of a bearded satyr, garlanded with fruiting vines below a scrolling rim, the lip with a small maskhead flanked by two goats' heads, the handle with a half-length figure of a man clutching a bottle, coloured in pale glazes, 20.5cm high, impressed 'Ra Wood Burslem' and '53' (restored lip, upper terminal and man's head of handle restored, crack in satyr's nose)
Footnotes
For another example see Sir Harold Mackintosh, Early English Figure Pottery (1938), p 73, fig 88
