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Lot 80*

A very rare creamware 'Tipsy Man' Toby jug, circa 1785

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £16,500 inc. premium

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A very rare creamware 'Tipsy Man' Toby jug, circa 1785

Modelled seated in a chair, holding a very large jug overflowing with beer in both hands, wearing a broad grin, ochre breeches and a jacket with vertical stripes in green, ochre and brown, 26.5cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
Sotheby's sale, Colstoun, Haddington, East Lothian, 1990
James and Timmey Challenger Collection, Chicago

Illustrated by Vic Schuler, Collecting British Toby Jugs (Third Edition, 1999), p.77 and discussed at p.49 where the author states that only six examples of the model were recorded at the time of writing. Another 'Tipsy Man' jug from the James and Timmey Challenger Collection was sold by Bonhams on 15 December 2020, lot 45. This differed from the present lot in that the chair was supported on four short legs. The example in the Bute Collection sold by Christie's on 8 July 1996, lot 50 has a similarly striped jacket to the present lot but a third version of the base, the chair having legs and standing on a shallow platform.

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