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Lot 45*

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

15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £19,000 inc. premium

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

Modelled without a base and supported by the splayed feet of the chair in which he sits, holding a very large jug overflowing with beer in both hands, wearing a broad grin, grey jacket and breeches splashed with ochre, 27.2cm high

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 8 July 1952, lot 27
Mackintosh Collection, Sotheby's sale, 2 May 1967, lot 27
James and Timmey Challenger Collection, Chicago

Illustrated by Lord Mackintosh in his Connoisseur article of June 1954 where the author suggests that it was possibly intended as a caricature of the Prince Regent. A few other examples are recorded including one by Vic Schuler, Collecting British Toby Jugs (3rd Edn, 1999), p.77 and discussed at p.49 where the author states that only six examples of the model were known at the time of writing.

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