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A rare New Hall milk jug and cover painted by Fidelle Duvivier circa 1786-90
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Find your local specialistA rare New Hall milk jug and cover painted by Fidelle Duvivier
Of pear shape with a 'clip' handle, the low domed cover with a pointed finial, painted in tones of sepia and black with a girl on a swing suspended from two gnarled trees, a boy standing beside her, a group of buildings including two bottle kilns in the distance, within simple borders in dark red and gold, the foreground with rocks and swags of vegetation in continental style, 13cm high (rim chips, slight wear to gilding on finial) (2)
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Provenance: Godden Reference Collection. Exhibited: New Hall Bicentenary 1781-1981, Stoke-on-Trent Museum. Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, New Hall Porcelains, pls 72 and 73, p 175. Godden quotes a letter from Duvivier to William Duesbury, dated 1 November and asking for employment as his work at New Hall has come to an end. Thus it is certain that Duvivier was working at New Hall in November 1790 and probably for an unknown period prior to then. There are a number of signed examples of his work on New Hall porcelain, including a mug in the Victoria and Albert Museum signed 'Duvivier' and 'Duvivier pinx' and illustrated by Godden, op cit, at pls 55, 56, 57 and 58. It is painted with a group of child revellers in very similar style to the present lot. A related subject appears on a well-known teapot illustrated at pl 64. This teapot was recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt as having been painted by Duvivier for Charles Bagnell, a partner in the factory. An engraving of it was included in the Art Journal of January 1864 and appeared again in Jewitt's The Ceramic Art of Great Britain, published in 1878
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