CIRCA 1760

Details

A LIVERPOOL TIN-GLAZED STONEWARE CREAM-JUG
CIRCA 1760
Of slender baluster form with pinched lip, flared top rim and loop handle with kick-terminal, painted in the Fazackerley style with blue and yellow flowers and green and manganese foliage, beneath a border of blue and manganese scrolls
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high

Provenance

The Estate of Edith Pitts-Curtis; Owen F. Valentine & Co., Virginia, 22 & 23 October 1994, lot 391.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D331.
F.H. Garner and Michael Archer, Delftware, London, 1972, pl. 104b.

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Lot Essay

Only three cream-jugs painted in the Fazackerley style are recorded of which this is the only stoneware example. Production of this rare class of ceramic appears to be limited to tea and coffee wares. For a discussion of 'delftstone' see exhibition catalogue, Made in Liverpool, Liverpool Pottery and Porcelain 1700-1850, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1993, pp. 24-25 and pp. 65-67, nos. 43-48.

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