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Lot 91*

A Staffordshire pearlware Toby Jug, circa 1800

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,500

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A Staffordshire pearlware Toby Jug, circa 1800

Of traditional form with a foaming brown jug resting on his knee and a pipe against the side of his chair, his coat with brown spots and unusually outlined in blue, his waistcoat in ochre, his breeches, socks and shoes in brown and white 'solid agate' stripes, 24.8cm high

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Provenance
Bute Collection, Christie's sale, 8 July 1996, lot 97
James and Timmey Challenger Collection, Chicago

This jug uses for Toby's legs the same unusual striped clay technique seen on lot 95 in this sale.

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