CIRCA 1690-1710

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SLIPWARE OWL JUG AND COVER
CIRCA 1690-1710
Of globular form with short cylindrical neck and loop handle, the body and cover with cream and brown combed slip decoration with outlined dark-brown slip wings with cream dot-ornament, the cover with two press-moulded cream eyes with brown dot-ornament, on a circular spreading foot, the owl's feet in cream slip
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Hayward (circa 1830), thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 June 1989, lot 327.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. I, S81.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

See the example in the British Museum, illustrated by R.L. Hobson, Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum, London, 1903, D92, pl. V and also the jug in the City Museum, Stoke-on-Trent (accession number 1990 P 432) which was sold by Phillips on 7 March 1990, lot 217. Another sold in these Rooms, 18 May 1999, lot 1. Leslie Grigsby illustrates another an owl jug from the Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery 1615-1800, London, 1990, p. 386, cat. no. 234, where she notes that the technique of combing the slip is particularly suited to simulating the look of feathered plumage.

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