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Two Baddeley-Littler jugs circa 1777-85
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With leaf-moulded bodies and mask-head spouts, the moulded borders picked out with bright green leaves reserved on a pink band, both painted with very similarly constructed floral sprays, the larger with a scrolled handle and flattened thumbrest, 20.8cm high, the smaller with a scrolled handle of similar shape but with a more pronounced thumbrest, 14.4cm high (cracked and chipped) (2)
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Provenance: Godden Reference Collection. Presumably inspired by Worcester examples, Baddeley-Littler mask jugs are found with three different handle forms, two of which are seen on this lot. See Geoffrey Godden, Staffordshire Porcelain, The Baddeley-Littler Porcelains (1983), colour plate III, for all three handle variants and the distinctive pink ground and green leaf borders also seen on the present lot. The scum line seen on the larger example in this lot is also a typical feature. The illustrated jugs are of the same pattern as the tea canister shown at fig 39, p 33, which bears an old label suggesting the link with William Littler which is discussed by Geoffrey Godden in Chapter 3. For another small mask jug, see the Watney Collection, Part I, lot 432
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