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Lot 15*
A very rare creamware water cistern, cover and basin circa 1775
14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Find your local specialistA very rare creamware water cistern, cover and basin
circa 1775
Probably Staffordshire, of rectangular section with scrolled handles and a finial in the form of a girl holding a lamb, a dolphin applied to the front with its mouth open to receive a spigot, applied in relief with classical decoration picked out in green, the dolphin and two satyr masks applied to the corners picked out in brown, cistern and cover 47cm high, basin 38.9cm wide (cistern cracked with part of interior spike lacking, rim chips) (3)
Probably Staffordshire, of rectangular section with scrolled handles and a finial in the form of a girl holding a lamb, a dolphin applied to the front with its mouth open to receive a spigot, applied in relief with classical decoration picked out in green, the dolphin and two satyr masks applied to the corners picked out in brown, cistern and cover 47cm high, basin 38.9cm wide (cistern cracked with part of interior spike lacking, rim chips) (3)
Footnotes
The Leeds Pottery pattern book illustrates a similar vessel which is described as a 'water closet pot'
