Lot 83
  • 83

A Sunderland creamware pink lustre two-handled chamber pot, probably Garrison Pottery, circa 1840

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Pottery
  • the chamber pot 23cm., 9in. diameter, largest jug 19cm., 7 1/2 in. high
the exterior printed and coloured with a sailing ship flanked by two figures, the reverse with the verse 'The Ship is moor'd', the interior with a head and shoulders portrait and the verse 'Keep me clean and use me well, And what I see I will not tell'; also a pink lustre mug and seven various pink lustre jugs,

Condition

Chamber pot: two restored chips to rim; Smallest jug printed with a ship, some restoration to foot; Two of the smaller 'Ladies All I Pray make free' jugs with cracks; Otherwise in generally good condition varying degrees of typical glaze crazing and staining.
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