AN ENGLISH CREAMWARE DATED CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

Details
AN ENGLISH CREAMWARE DATED CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
DATED 1773, ENAMELLED IN THE MANNER OF DAVID RHODES

Enamelled in colours with flowers, the cover inscribed 'Ruth Clouer, 1773' and flanked by similar flowers, Jacobs Collection no. 417 (two cracks in the side of box)--3¼in. ( cm.) diameter
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, October 20, 1981, lot 77


Cf. Towner, Creamware, pl. 45A for another box painted with similar flowers and ascribed to the pottery at cockpit Hill, Derby.