Fergus Gambon
Director
Lot 38*
A very rare marked Wood Family Toby Jug and cover of 'Mould 51' type, circa 1790
15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,570 inc. premium
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Anna Burnside
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A very rare marked Wood Family Toby Jug and cover of 'Mould 51' type, circa 1790
Of traditional form and crisply modelled, seated and holding a foaming jug in his left hand and a foaming glass in his raised right hand, a pipe leaning at his side, wearing a dark brown tricorn hat and shoes, a pale brown jacket and pale yellow breeches, his waistcoat left in the white, 26.1cm high, impressed 'Ra. Wood Burslem 51' (2)
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Provenance
James and Timmey Challenger Collection, Chicago
It is rare to find a jug of this type marked in this way. Whilst the mark 'R. Wood' was used by Ralph Wood, it is thought that 'Ra. Wood' was that used by his son, Ralph Wood the younger. A similarly marked jug is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession no. C.42-1955) and another is listed in the Captain R K Price Collection, Astbury, Whieldon and Ralph Wood Figures and Toby Jugs (1922), p.98, no.41. See also that from the Bute Collection of Toby Jugs sold by Christie's on 8 July 1996, lot 67.
