A LARGE ARMORIAL JUG

CIRCA 1755

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A LARGE ARMORIAL JUG
Circa 1755
The front with a large coat-of-arms of Lynch with Wake in pretence quartering Hovell, the white lynx crest above, the sides painted with a Chinese landscape scene showing a river meandering through mountains, continuing around to the loop handle at the back, the mouth molded with a bearded satyr mask and the whole with molded horizontal bands
13in. (35cm.) high

Provenance

The Very Revd. John Lynch, D.D., Dean of Canterbury, and Mary Wake Lynch
Frederick Arthur Crisp collection, sold London, March 1923
Sir Algernon Tudor-Craig
With The Art Exchange, New York, New York
A private American collection

Lot Essay

One of a magnificnet pair of jugs published by Tudor-Craig in Armorial Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, London 1925, p. 70. The companion jug, enamelled with colorful cockerels in place of the landscape scene, was published by E. Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, New York 1977, pl. V. See D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 402 for a discussion of the family.

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