Lot Essay
See Sampson and Horne, English Pottery and Related Works of Art, London, 2008, no. 08/3 for a similar jug dated 1812.
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SYD LEVETHAN: THE LONGRIDGE COLLECTION
AN ENGLISH SGRAFFITO SLIPWARE DATED AND INSCRIBED HARVEST JUG
DATED 1807, PROBABLY BARNSTAPLE, NORTH DEVON
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AN ENGLISH SGRAFFITO SLIPWARE DATED AND INSCRIBED HARVEST JUG
DATED 1807, PROBABLY BARNSTAPLE, NORTH DEVON
With pinched spout and scroll sgraffito slip decoration of a radiating sunburst, flanked by flowering plants with the inscription 'Despise me not/because I'm small/but fill me often/till please you/all/Ann Perkin/1807' within a circular cartouche, the neck with stiff-leaf and incised scroll-ornament
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
DATED 1807, PROBABLY BARNSTAPLE, NORTH DEVON
With pinched spout and scroll sgraffito slip decoration of a radiating sunburst, flanked by flowering plants with the inscription 'Despise me not/because I'm small/but fill me often/till please you/all/Ann Perkin/1807' within a circular cartouche, the neck with stiff-leaf and incised scroll-ornament
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
Provenance
With Garry Atkins, London.
Literature
L.B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, vol. 1, London, 2000, p. 148, cat. no. S86.
Brought to you by
Sallie Glover
See Sampson and Horne, English Pottery and Related Works of Art, London, 2008, no. 08/3 for a similar jug dated 1812.