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An important Nantgarw milk jug, circa 1818-20
15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,000 inc. premium
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An important Nantgarw milk jug, circa 1818-20
Of circular form, painted at the factory by Thomas Pardoe with a band of garden flowers in his unique style, the rim and foot also gilded, the strap handle unusually applied with two moulded leaves picked out in gold, 5.7cm high
Footnotes
Nantgarw milk jugs occur in two forms, oblong and circular, the circular being perhaps the rarest. A London-decorated example was sold by Bonhams, 2 November 2015 and a locally-decorated example formed part of the Edwards Service sold by Bonhams, 2 November 2011, lot 242. Others are illustrated by E Morton Nance, The Pottery and Porcelain of Swansea and Nantgarw (1942), pl.CLXI and W D John, Nantgarw Porcelain Album (1975), Illustration 82. All these have plain strap handles, lacking the applied leaves seen on the present lot. Related leaf moulding is seen on a rare variant of the circular teapot form illustrated by W D John, op cit, Illustration 38, also painted by Pardoe.