Slipware Pocket Flask

Description:

Slipware Pocket Flask, England, c. 1799, Sussex, in the manner of the Chailey potworks, the redware body press-molded and stamped and inlaid in white, one side with "Francis Foster dItChlIng Sussex 1799" within a field of random stars, the reverse with "When heare Is 1 dram you may drInk It If you can," also with stars, dia. 2 7/8, lg. 3 in.

Provenance: From the Troy Chappell Collection; Gary Atkins.

Literature: An Exhibition of English Pottery (2004),by Gary Atkins, illus. 32.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Chips and glaze abrasions by spout. Body hairline under the glaze. Scattered glaze firing blemishes.


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