A LARGE DUTCH DELFT FIGURAL BACCHUS FOUNTAIN JUG WITH COVER, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with a buffoon with fluffy face, wearing a dark-blue-ground yellow buttoned vest, green breeches, white stockings, manganese-red shoes, holding a yellow cup in his left hand and a small green jug towards his head in his right hand, seated astride a hatched barrel, the front with copper tap surrounded, with leaves, on quadrupod rocaille marbled base, the cover modelled as a large bunch of grapes headdress (hairline crack to barrel, chips to cover), marked for Anthony Pennis, mid 18th Century

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A LARGE DUTCH DELFT FIGURAL BACCHUS FOUNTAIN JUG WITH COVER, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief with a buffoon with fluffy face, wearing a dark-blue-ground yellow buttoned vest, green breeches, white stockings, manganese-red shoes, holding a yellow cup in his left hand and a small green jug towards his head in his right hand, seated astride a hatched barrel, the front with copper tap surrounded, with leaves, on quadrupod rocaille marbled base, the cover modelled as a large bunch of grapes headdress (hairline crack to barrel, chips to cover), marked for Anthony Pennis, mid 18th Century
39 cm high

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