AN ENGLISH MOCHAWARE DOUBLE JUG

CIRCA 1830

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AN ENGLISH MOCHAWARE DOUBLE JUG
Circa 1830
Each of baluster form, luted at one side and pierced internally, linked at the neck with a bail handle, one side with a fixed flat cover, each pearlware jug identically slip-decorated in slate blue, brown and yellow with concentric bands of 'earthworm', 'twig' and 'cat's eye' decoration between paired blue lines, collection no. 10
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high

Provenance

with Fiona & Bill Laidlaw, London, 1987.

Lot Essay

The present rare double-jug is one of only six known [Andrea DiNoto, "Collecting: Mocha Madness", Connoisseur, September 1991, p. 128]. See Jonathan Rickard, "Mochaware: Slip Decorated Refined Earthenware", The Magazine Antiques, August 1993, p. 188, Pls. XI, XII, XIII for illustrations of three others.

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