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A Prattware 'Bacchus and Pan' jug, circa 1790 image 1
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Lot 69*

A Prattware 'Bacchus and Pan' jug, circa 1790

15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£800 - £1,200

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A Prattware 'Bacchus and Pan' jug, circa 1790

Bacchus seated on a barrel covered with fruit, wearing a blue lion skin robe and grasping a cornucopia which rises to form the spout of the jug, the spout modelled as the head of a dolphin and the handle as a monkey, a figure of Pan to the reverse with an owl by his side, on a circular base, 30.3cm high

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Provenance
James and Timmey Challenger Collection, Chicago

This jug is based upon a Wood Family model, see Sir Harold Mackintosh, Early English Figure Pottery (1938), p.73 and p.92 where the modelling is attributed to Voyez.

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