Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 443

A rare Nantgarw milk jug, circa 1818-20

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,250 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our British Ceramics specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

A rare Nantgarw milk jug, circa 1818-20

Of circular form with a ridged strap handle, painted in London with three panels of flowers edged with gilded scrollwork, the bright turquoise ground with radiating oeil de perdrix in gold and puce, delicate gilded scrollwork just inside the spout, 7.7cm 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 by Thomas Pardoe on 15 November 2017, lot 287. 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. The decoration is similar to that found on the Dukes of Newcastle and Gloucester services, except that the floral panels in the border are edged with scrollwork rather than bands of gilt ovals.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A London delftware 'Bleu Persan' mug, circa 1680-1700

An assembled Holkham Pottery white and gilt decorated tea and breakfast serviceThird quarter 20th century

A Wrotham slipware tyg by George Richardson, dated 1648

A London delftware fuddling cup, circa 1630-50

An English delftware barber's bowl, circa 1700-20

A rare English delftware bird feeder, dated 1751

An English delftware teapot and cover, circa 1750

A rare Elers Brothers redware mug, circa 1695

A Staffordshire solid agate teapot and cover, circa 1750

A Staffordshire white saltglaze teapot and cover, circa 1750

A rare Staffordshire white saltglaze teapot and cover, circa 1750

A Yorkshire pearlware frog mug from the 'Portrait Group', dated 1781

A Staffordshire creamware cauliflower coffee pot and a cover, circa 1760-80

A Chelsea figure group of the Tyrolean Dancers, circa 1756

An exceptional St James's (Charles Gouyn) white figure group of Europa and the Bull, circa 1750-52

A good Vauxhall group of Hercules and the Nemean lion, circa 1756-58

A Plymouth model of a lion, circa 1768-70