A Polesworth Pottery puzzle-jug

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A Polesworth Pottery puzzle-jug
of traditional type, the slightly swollen earthenware body enriched with a honey-coloured glaze beneath the inscription POLESWORTH POTTERY in brown slip beneath a straight-sided pierced rim also enriched in slip, with single spout and loop handle, the interior with applied slip-decorated frog -- 6in. (15.2cm.) high, 19th century

Lot Essay

C.f. Geoffrey Godden, The Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks, p.502. Godden notes that there is a slip-decorated eathenware jug dated 1801 in the Fitzwilliam Museum also inscribed 'Polesworth Pottery'

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