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Lot 8

A rare pair of Staffordshire saltglaze wall pockets
circa 1760-65

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

Sold for £720 inc. premium

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A rare pair of Staffordshire saltglaze wall pockets

circa 1760-65
Thinly slip cast, the flat backs pierced with two holes for suspension, the front with a Green Man mask, his grinning mouth with teeth visible, a garland of ivy leaves in his hair, below a scrolled border and a dolphin head mask, 18.5cm high (one with rim chip and section restored) (2)

Footnotes

The same model is found in lead-glazed earthenware, see Arnold Mountford, Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware (1971), pls 153 and 154. See also Leslie Grigsby, The Henry H Weldon Collection, pls 60 and 134

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