Tin-glazed Earthenware Wall Pocket,

Description:

Tin-glazed Earthenware Wall Pocket,
England, c. 1770, probably Liverpool, press-molded and blue decorated with a central mask of Flora centering scrolled foliage and set above a raised shell with cherub mask below, lg. 7 1/2 in.

Provenance: The Troy Chappell Collection; Earle D. Vandekar.

Literature: Similar illustrated in A Collection of Early English Pottery, by J. Horne, part IX, illus. 227; English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, by Britton, illus. 7.20.
Estimate $300-500

Scattered age typical glaze chipping to rim and surface.


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