A Worcester Porcelain Yellow-Ground Cabbage-Leaf Mask Jug, Circa 1765-68
Auction Closed
October 15, 06:30 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
of globular form moulded with overlapping cabbage leaves, the cylindrical neck with a painted triangular mask spout, the pale-yellow ground reserving three puce-scroll edged panels of printed scenes picked out in colours, 'The Milkmaids', 'Rural Lovers' and 'The Milking Scene', flanked by flower sprigs and moths, the neck painted with a band of flowers
height 9 1/8 in.
23.2 cm
Sir Jeremy Lever Collection, Bonham's London, 7 March 2007, lot 108
A second jug of this type, purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Button, London, for £20 in July 1884 is now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, acc. no. 414:541-1885. A further example is in the Museum of Royal Worcester, Worcester, illustrated in Henry Sandon, The Illustrated Guide to Worcester Porcelain, 1751-1793, 1979, col. pl. 2.
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