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Lot 180

A very unusual cornucopia attributed to Caughley, circa 1775-76

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A very unusual cornucopia attributed to Caughley, circa 1775-76

Of spiral horn shape with a foliate scroll-moulded rim, crisply moulded in low relief with a rural landscape of a shepherd beneath a tree beside an ecclesiastical building, cattle grazing in the foreground, the rim edged in blue, a simple floral spray in underglaze blue to the base, 21.5cm high,

Footnotes

The moulded decoration is based on a saltglaze prototype popular at Worcester twenty years earlier, see lot 179 in this sale. However, the distinctive style of the underglaze blue flower spray places this example in the mid-1770s and is related to a series of dated tankards that have been attributed both to Caughley and to Worcester. Early Caughley shapes closely followed Worcester forms and it is presumed Thomas Turner made use of some Worcester moulds, but it has been noted that early Caughley versions are frequently superior and more sharply moulded than their Worcester counterparts. The use of a single thin line as a border and the absence of any blue painting to highlight the modelling reminds us of early Caughley chrysanthemum-moulded pieces, in which the moulded detail is far superior to Worcester examples popular a decade or more before. No similar cornucopia from the 1770s appears to be recorded.

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