Lot Essay
See Griselda Lewis, A Collector's History of English Pottery (1985), pl. 2, for a similar example in the British Museum and The Burnap Collection of English Pottery, Catalogue (1967), fig. 2. See also George Savage, English Pottery and Porcelain (1961), fig. 8 for the neck of a jug in the London Museum. Another example modelled as a man holding his hands to his face, which had been excavated near the Mansion House in London, was sold by Sotheby's, 9 January 1973, lot 4. A more elaborate example from the Fowler Collection and excavated at the Old Bailey was sold in these Rooms, 24 October 1961, lot 47 and again on 19 November 1968, lot 4.