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Lot 113

A North Devon slipware harvest jug, dated 1850

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,147.50 inc. premium

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A North Devon slipware harvest jug, dated 1850

Probably Bideford, of generous globular form with a pinched cylindrical neck, the loop handle with a curled lower terminal, sgraffito decorated to the front with a stylised woolsack inscribed 'Mr Everton/ Come fill me full/ with Liqour Sweet/ for that is good/ when Friends do meet/ But pray take care/ don't let me fall/ Lest you Lost your/ Liqour Jug and all/ aug 8th 1850', flanked on the right by a large bird perched on a flowering branch and on the left by a bird in flight above a flowering tree, 24.5cm high

Footnotes

A harvest jug dated 1835 inscribed with the same verse and decorated with stylistically very similar birds and a similar zigzag border to the neck is illustrated by David Barker and Steve Crompton, Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (2007), pp.62-3, where it is attributed to Bideford. Another, also dated 1835, was sold by Christie's on 19 June 2012, lot 557. See also the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession no. 13.27.2).

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