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A Baddeley-Littler sparrow beak cream jug circa 1780-85
14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,140 inc. premium
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circa 1780-85
With an elaborate scroll-moulded handle, painted in colours with a boy with a skipping rope flanked by two adult figures and two flowering plants, a puce scale and floral swag border below the interior rim, 9cm high (chipped)
With an elaborate scroll-moulded handle, painted in colours with a boy with a skipping rope flanked by two adult figures and two flowering plants, a puce scale and floral swag border below the interior rim, 9cm high (chipped)
Footnotes
The decoration on this jug is closely related to a tea canister bearing an old label linking it to William Littler and illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, The Baddeley Littler Porcelains?, Staffordshire Porcelain (1983), pl 39, p 33. For another related tea canister, see The Watney Collection, Part 3, Lot 1221
