Mocha-decorated Creamware Jug

Description:

Mocha-decorated Creamware Jug, England, c. 1805, banded in yellow slip bracketing a green-glazed reeded band below a brown slip-inlaid engine-turned pattern on the neck with black inlaid engine turning on the swelling body, the handle with foliate terminals, ht. 5 3/4 in.

Literature: Illustrated in Jonathan Rickard, Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1790 (University Press of New England; Lebanon, New Hampshire, 2006),p. 40.

Exhibitions: Mocha Mania, Colonial Williamsburg, 1993-94.
Estimate $400-600

Small repair on the spout, repair to handle.


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