Lot Essay
For a similarly decorated jug, see Rickard, Ceramics in America, vol. I, p. 119, fig. 6.
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CIRCA 1800
Details
AN ENGLISH MOCHAWARE ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND
CIRCA 1800
Pearlware, of silver shape, slip-marbled and combed in rust, ochre, mocha-brown, dark-brown, cream and blue, the shell handles, acorn finial and ribbed rim-bands glazed in green, collection no. 199 a-c
7 in. (17.9 cm.) diameter, the stand (3)
CIRCA 1800
Pearlware, of silver shape, slip-marbled and combed in rust, ochre, mocha-brown, dark-brown, cream and blue, the shell handles, acorn finial and ribbed rim-bands glazed in green, collection no. 199 a-c
7 in. (17.9 cm.) diameter, the stand (3)
Provenance
with the Louvre des Antiquaires, Paris, 1991.
Sale room notice
According to Johnathan Rickard, the present ecuelle, cover and stand may be the work of Charles and Jacques Leigh at Douai, France, ca. 1785. See Dorothée Guillemé-Brulon, La Faïence Fine Française 1750-1867, p. 131 for a comparable example in the Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai.