Lot Essay
Cf. Price, pl. LVIII, no. 129.
CIRCA 1830
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Two pearlware overglaze enamelled 'Small' or 'American Sailor' Toby-jugs
Circa 1830
Conventionally modelled, with a large baluster mug of frothing ale inscribed SUCCESS TO OUR WOODEN WALLS and with a pipe, seated on a trunk inscribed DOLLARS, supported by a leafy branch forming the handle, his clothes in blue (one with extensive flaking to blue enamel and with pipe-stem lacking, the other with part of hat lacking and repaired)
10½in. (26.5cm.) high (2)
Circa 1830
Conventionally modelled, with a large baluster mug of frothing ale inscribed SUCCESS TO OUR WOODEN WALLS and with a pipe, seated on a trunk inscribed DOLLARS, supported by a leafy branch forming the handle, his clothes in blue (one with extensive flaking to blue enamel and with pipe-stem lacking, the other with part of hat lacking and repaired)
10½in. (26.5cm.) high (2)