A creamware Admiral Lord Rodney Toby-jug

CIRCA 1782

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A creamware Admiral Lord Rodney Toby-jug
Circa 1782
Of large size, modelled by the same hand as the preceding, in dark-brown hat applied with a rosette, his incised hair tied en queue and with brown markings, seated drawing his sword from a brown scabard held by a white sash and wearing a green-washed frock-coat with ochre buttons, frogging and cuffs, dark-brown breeches and shoes, with grooved loop handle edged in brown, on a shaped base (piece lacking from back of hat and with associated crack, part of hilt and pommel of sword lacking, crack through and round back of base, two areas of edge of base lacking near front, two chips to hem of frock-coat at back)
11½in. (29.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

This is among the most rare of Toby-jugs. It is identified as Rodney by Price, op. cit., pl. XLVII, nos 68 and 69 but the same model was used as a Sportsman and Fiddler. See also Sir Harold Mackintosh Bt., Early English Figure Pottery (1938), p. 39, pl. 92.

An example of the Sportsman was sold at Sotheby's, 24 November 1953, lot 42 and a similar jug is in the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.

An example of the Fiddler from the collection of S.F. Berry Esq., was sold at Sotheby's, 21 June 1960, lot 51.

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