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Lot 204

A rare Lowestoft mask jug, circa 1765-70

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Lowestoft mask jug, circa 1765-70

The globular body on a turned foot, the spout formed as a bearded mask, elaborate floral and scrolled relief-moulding reserving panels painted in blue with chinoiserie riverscapes, scattered sprigs around the foot, a lattice border around the outside rim and a 'loop and arrow' border inside, the moulded features of the mask picked out in blue, save for his mysteriously lacking right eyebrow, 21cm high

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Provenance
Bonhams sale, 18 January 2012, lot 82

A similar jug is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), p.77, pl.79. A Lowestoft cabbage leaf-moulded mask jug from the Geoffrey Godden Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 June 2010, lot 145. Curiously, both this jug and the present lot have a hole pierced through their footrim from manufacture, the significance of which is unknown.

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