A creamware 'Toper' Toby-jug

CIRCA 1770

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A creamware 'Toper' Toby-jug
Circa 1770
Modelled by the same hand as the preceding, seated holding a jug of frothing ale and a glass, his incised white hair with dark-brown curls at the side, en queue and with a blue rosette, in washed green frock-coat with yellow collar and cuffs, white waistcoat and shirt, brown breeches and shoes, with incised green loop handle, on a shaped base (area of repair to side of hat, chips to hat, glass, cuffs and base)
6¼in. (16cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Price, pl. XVLVII, nos 70 and 71 and Mackintosh, op. cit. (1938), p.39, nos. 91-93.

An example from the Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax and Christopher Bibby Collections sold in these Rooms, 6 October 1970, lot 7 and another inscribed RICHARD DARBY SEP. 1787 in the Mackintosh Collection sold at Sotheby's, 17 October 1967, lot 175. Another example sold in these Rooms, 19 May 1980, lot 132 and two others at Sotheby's, 18 October 1988, lot 565 and 13 June 1995, lot 408.

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