A pearlware blue and white jug

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A pearlware blue and white jug
printed with quarter-length portraits of LORD NELSON and LORD COLLINGWOOD, within roundels and laurel wreaths, inscribed TRAFALGAR below a further wreath of laurels encircling a rose, thistle and shamrock with attributes of war, below a border of shells and seaweed and a brown-line rim, circa 1805 (restoration to spout, light crazing to the glaze and minor damages) -- 12.5cm. high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Cf. Surgeon Captain P. D. Gordon Pugh, Naval Ceramics (1971), pl. 44A, for a similar jug.

Cuthbert Collingwood, first Baron Collingwood (1750-1810), vice-admiral. Collingwood's naval career was closely connected with Admiral Lord Nelson, he was second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. On Nelson's death he assumed command and was rewarded with a peerage.

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