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Lot 11

A rare pearlware jug
circa 1800

14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £420 inc. premium

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A rare pearlware jug

circa 1800
With a scrolled handle, printed in sepia with a fashionably dressed couple standing before a blacksmith in a busy forge, inscribed 'Gretna Green or the Red-Hot Marriage', the reverse with the couple and their three children, within a smartly furnished interior, a banner above them inscribed 'Conjugal Felicity', a third print of cupids at play below the spout, 21.4cm high, 'Conjugal Felicity' print signed 'Thos Fletcher and Co, Shelton'

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Provenance: Godden Reference Collection. See David Drakard, Printed English Pottery (1992), p 42 for details of Thomas Fletcher. See also pl 153, p 67 for a teapot and cover with the same print

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