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Lot 69

A Nottingham medieval jug, 14th century

15 April 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Nottingham medieval jug, 14th century

Of slender baluster shape with a broad strap handle and spreading base, the upper part with pronounced throwing rings and a mottled olive green glaze, 35.5cm high

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Provenance
With Jonathan Horne
Graham Slater Collection

This jug shows evidence of kiln adhesion caused during manufacture and also a small section of the footrim appears to have become detached during the firing. It is therefore possible that this was a kiln waster and it may have been recovered close to a kiln site. Another jug of similar size and shape, excavated in Nottingham, was undoubtedly a kiln failure as a split in the side of the vessel appeared during the firing and would have rendered it unusable. This was in the Henry Sandon Collection and had been purchased at Bonhams on 7 September 2005, lot 13. A related baluster jug, dated to the late 13th century was excavated in Bingham and is now in Nottingham Brewhouse Yard Museum, no.NCM-1878-314/8. A jug of similar shape with the addition of a moulded initial on the front, was excavated in Thurland Street in Nottingham, illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Medieval English Pottery (1948), pl.63.

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