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Lot 131
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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE OWL JUG AND COVER
Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE OWL JUG AND COVER
CIRCA 1760
With applied ridged plumage enriched with brown slip spots (cover cracked, handle restored, tail restuck, claws chipped)--
8¼in. (21cm.) high
Provenance
E.G. Obert, Esq.
Anon., Sale Sotheby's London, March 30, 1965, Lot 108 (to Tilley & Co. on behalf of Kenneth Chorley)
Lot Essay
Cf. Bernard Rackham,
The Glaisher Collection
, Cambridge, 1935, no. 497