Lot Essay
C.f. Geoffrey A. Godden, Mason's China and the Ironstone Wares, (Suffolk, 1980), p. 162, pl. 233, for a crocus jug of the same form and pattern.
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CIRCA 1815
Details
A Mason's Ironstone Imari 'Crocus' jug
Circa 1815
Pear-shaped with garlic neck and loop handle, painted and gilt with the 'Japan Fence' pattern (minor retouching to gilding of rim and rubbing to gilding generally)
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high
Circa 1815
Pear-shaped with garlic neck and loop handle, painted and gilt with the 'Japan Fence' pattern (minor retouching to gilding of rim and rubbing to gilding generally)
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high
Special notice
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