A RARE EUROPEAN SUBJECT CIDER-JUG AND COVER

CIRCA 1790

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A RARE EUROPEAN SUBJECT CIDER-JUG AND COVER
CIRCA 1790
Of barrel form with iron-red Buddhistic lion finial and entwined reeded double-strap handle, painted to one side with Toby Philpot displaying a less than toothy grin, seated and holding a frothy jug of ale in one hand and displaying a page of lyrics reading DEAR TOM THIS BROWN JUG WHICH NOW FOAMS WITH MILD ALE OUT OF, the other side with a laden table
10¼ in. (25.9 cm.) high

Provenance

The Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1985, lot 216

Literature

M. Beurdeley, op. cit., p. 164, cat. 68

Exhibited

Virginia Museum, 1981-82

Lot Essay

The besotted character of Toby Philpot ('fill pot') is better known as the basis for Staffordshire Toby Jugs and as the ale loving soldier in the 1761 song Dear Tom, This Brown Jug. For another example lacking its cover, see anon. sale, Christie's, London, 1 November 1982, lot 179.

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