Lot Essay
Cf. Burlington Fine Arts Club, Catalogue, pl. XLI, no. 41 for a jug with similar figures and insect; and Rackham, Glaisher Collection, pl. 42, no. 594 for a similar jug
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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE SMALL CREAM-JUG
CIRCA 1745
Of pear shape, with reeded strap handle and enamelled in colours with a gardener in blue jacket, green shirt, red-striped apron, watering a giant flowering shrub, two huge insects in flight above him, the interior of the wavy edge with iron-red diaper border broken by flowerheads, Jacobs Collection no. 616 (restoration to handle and restored chip to footrim)--3 1/8in. (8.5cm.) high
CIRCA 1745
Of pear shape, with reeded strap handle and enamelled in colours with a gardener in blue jacket, green shirt, red-striped apron, watering a giant flowering shrub, two huge insects in flight above him, the interior of the wavy edge with iron-red diaper border broken by flowerheads, Jacobs Collection no. 616 (restoration to handle and restored chip to footrim)--3 1/8in. (8.5cm.) high