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Lot 93*

A creamware 'Martha Gunn' Toby Jug, circa 1800

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £573.75 inc. premium

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A creamware 'Martha Gunn' Toby Jug, circa 1800

Of attractive small size, modelled as a seated woman wearing a pale yellow spotted dress and mobcap, a cat on her lap, smoking a large pipe, the bowl formed as a man's head, the turquoise handle modelled as a serpent and dolphin, 11.5cm high, incised '3' to base

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Provenance
James and Timmey Challenger Collection, Chicago

A similar example is illustrated by John and Griselda Lewis, Pratt Ware (1984), p.248.

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