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Lot 55*

A very rare Prattware 'Postillion' Toby Jug and cover, circa 1800-10

15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,462.50 inc. premium

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A very rare Prattware 'Postillion' Toby Jug and cover, circa 1800-10

Modelled seated on a chair with a high scrolled back, the pot-bellied coachman dressed in bicorn hat, bright striped coat and waistcoat and blue breeches tucked into yellow top-boots, a jug of foaming ale in his left hand resting on his knee and a foaming glass in his raised right hand, 18.4cm high (2)

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Provenance
James and Timmey Challenger Collection, Chicago

A similar jug, with a less elaborately decorated coat, was sold by Bonhams on 14 April 2010, lot 27. Another version is illustrated by Captain R K Price, Astbury, Whieldon, and Ralph Wood Figures, and Toby Jugs (1922), no.91, pl.LII.

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