Lot 140
140
A FINE GEORGE II PEAR-SHAPED CREAM JUG, on three female mask and claw-and-ball feet, chased with two shaped-oval panels, one enclosing goats, the other cows and a milk maid, scrolls and foliage, the naturalistic scroll handle cast as a branch bearing fruits and flowers and with moulded scroll rim, engraved with a crest, by William Cripps, 1749

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A FINE GEORGE II PEAR-SHAPED CREAM JUG, on three female mask and claw-and-ball feet, chased with two shaped-oval panels, one enclosing goats, the other cows and a milk maid, scrolls and foliage, the naturalistic scroll handle cast as a branch bearing fruits and flowers and with moulded scroll rim, engraved with a crest, by William Cripps, 1749
5¼in. (13.2cm.) high
(9ozs.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's, 3rd March, 1904, lot 66 (#26 to S. J. Phillips)
S. J. Phillips Esq.
Literature
C. J. Jackson, F.S.A., History of English Plate, 1911, vol.II, p.986
Exhibited
English Silver, 1600-1850, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1965-1966, no.100, and illustrated on the cover of the exhibition catalogue
The Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton, 1967

Lot Essay

The cream jug is probably a unique survival of the late Rococo period although another, also of 1749, of similar form and decoration is in the Huntington Collection, San Marino and illustrated in Robert R. Wark, British Silver in the Huntington Collection, 1978, no.143

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