Three Prattware jugs, circa 1800
Three Prattware jugs, circa 1800
Moulded and picked out in Pratt colours, two with profile portraits of 'ADMIREL DUNCAN [sic], the reverse of the larger example with figures gathering the harvest, 19.5cm high, the smaller with a portrait of 'CAPTAIN TROLOP [sic] to the reverse, 13.8cm high, the third example with half-length portraits both presumed to be Admiral John Jervis, 'LORD JARVIS [sic]' moulded to one side of the jug in a banner below the shoulder, 15.7cm high (3)
See the footnote to lot 120 in this sale for an example similar to the first and second-mentioned jugs, attributed to one of the Scottish East Coast potteries. Naïve misspellings appear regularly in commemorative pottery of this type.
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Three Prattware jugs, circa 1800
Moulded and picked out in Pratt colours, two with profile portraits of 'ADMIREL DUNCAN [sic], the reverse of the larger example with figures gathering the harvest, 19.5cm high, the smaller with a portrait of 'CAPTAIN TROLOP [sic] to the reverse, 13.8cm high, the third example with half-length portraits both presumed to be Admiral John Jervis, 'LORD JARVIS [sic]' moulded to one side of the jug in a banner below the shoulder, 15.7cm high (3)
See the footnote to lot 120 in this sale for an example similar to the first and second-mentioned jugs, attributed to one of the Scottish East Coast potteries. Naïve misspellings appear regularly in commemorative pottery of this type.