A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE 'SCRATCH BLUE' PUZZLE-JUG

Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE 'SCRATCH BLUE' PUZZLE-JUG
CIRCA 1760

With scroll handle and rim applied with shells and berries above the pierced neck and decorated with birds on branches and a mound, cracked, some restoration and crazed
8½in. (21.6cm.) high
Provenance
With Mark & Marjorie Allen, Putnam Valley, New York

Lot Essay

Cf. Peter Walton, Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House Leeds, London, 1976, fig. 126 for a similar example with applied scrolls to the handle and rim; for other examples of saltglaze puzzle-jugs see Charles F.C. Luxmoore, English Saltglazed Stoneware, London, 1924, pl. 27 for a dated example; see also Arnold R. Mountford, The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware London, 1971, figs. 70, 163 and 164; and Anon. sale, Christie's London, June 1, 1987, lot 29