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Lot 281

A creamware frog mug, circa 1775

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

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A creamware frog mug, circa 1775

Probably Leeds, of plain cylindrical form, the handle with distinctive moulded foliate terminals, painted in colours with a stag hunting scene within an oval panel, reserved on a striped ground sponged in black and salmon pink, a comical frog with bulging eyes and open mouth crouching within the interior, 16.2cm high (some restoration)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Jonathan Horne Exhibition, March 1985.

A tankard at Temple Newsam House, Leeds is marked 'Leeds Pottery' and has the same moulded handle and terminals. See Peter Walton, Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House (1976), pl.14, p.276.

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