Lot 2
2
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE PUZZLE-JUG, the globular body inscribed Here Gentlemen come try your Skill,/I'le hold a wager if you will:/That you don't drink this liquor all;/Without you Spill or lett some fall./1732, the reverse with flower-sprays, the neck pierced with a flowerhead pattern and the rim with three apertures (chips to apertures and glaze flaking to rim), 1732, probably London

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AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE PUZZLE-JUG, the globular body inscribed Here Gentlemen come try your Skill,/I'le hold a wager if you will:/That you don't drink this liquor all;/Without you Spill or lett some fall./1732, the reverse with flower-sprays, the neck pierced with a flowerhead pattern and the rim with three apertures (chips to apertures and glaze flaking to rim), 1732, probably London
19cm. high

Lot Essay

Only one other example painted by the same hand and bearing this, the earliest known date for a puzzle-jug with this well-known rhyme, is recorded, see Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Pt. IX, no. 225. Cf. Louis Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, pp. 231-232, nos. 1022 and 1023 for examples dated 1733 also by the same hand

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