AN ENGLISH DATED CREAMWARE CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

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AN ENGLISH DATED CREAMWARE CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
DATED 1773, INCISED SCRIPT W

The box inscribed in iron-red and black 'Peter, Brein 1775', the cover inscribed When/this you see/Remember me/tho many miles we/Distant be, Jacobs Collection no. 637 (rim chips and associated crack to base, inside rim of screw cover restored, some ribbing to enamels)--3in. ( cm.) diameter
Provenance
Donald towner
Literature
Towner, Leeds, plate 3la-v

Lot Essay

Cf. Towner, Creamware, p. 225-fig. 68 for a script W similarly inscribed (as part of the initials JW) to that on the present box. Towner gives a listing of possible identities for 'JW", concluding that the hand inside it is inscribed is that of Josiah Wedgwood.