Details
A BOVEY TRACEY DOCUMENTARY SALTGLAZE SQUARE TEA-CANNISTER
DATED 1768
With indented corners and sides, inscribed 'John Allward March ye.17:1768' and with stylized scrolls, the sides with diaper and flowers, fitted with a later silvered top and neck, minute chips
5½in. (14cm.) high
DATED 1768
With indented corners and sides, inscribed 'John Allward March ye.17:1768' and with stylized scrolls, the sides with diaper and flowers, fitted with a later silvered top and neck, minute chips
5½in. (14cm.) high
Provenance
Price Glover, Christie's London, June 14, 1988, lot 63
Literature
Charles F.C. Luxmoore, English Saltglazed Earthenware, London, 1924, pl. 35; and Brain Adams and Anthony Thomas, A Potwork in Devonshire, Bovey Tracey, 1996, p.71