A creamware 'Thin Man' Toby-jug of Ralph Wood type

CIRCA 1785

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A creamware 'Thin Man' Toby-jug of Ralph Wood type
Circa 1785
Conventionally modelled smoking a pipe and holding a globular round jug of frothing ale, with streaked brown hat and hair, his frock-coat with green and brown patches (two cracks to hat, bowl of pipe lacking)
9½in. (24cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Other examples sold in these Rooms, 15 February 1988, lot 61; 1 June 1987, lot 117 and 1 March 1993, lot 372.

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