Lot 255
  • 255

A Dixon, Austin and Co. Pratt-type watch stand circa 1820-26

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 USD
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Description

  • pottery
  • height 11 inches
  • 27.9 cm
modelled as a longcase clock flanked on either side by a boy or girl wearing classical drapery and leaning against a short column, impressed DIXON, AUSTIN, & CO.

Condition

Minor chips to the flower held by the bot. Otherwise in generally good condition.
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Catalogue Note

A similar watch stand is illustrated by John and Griselda Lewis in Prattware, English and Scottish Relief Decorated and Underglaze Colored Earthenware, 1789-1840, p. 104. Another example, decorated in purple lustre, is illustrated by Myrna Schkolne, Staffordshire Figures 1780-1840, vol. 4, p. 216., fig. 198.2.