Americana
Description:
Rare and Important Creamware Baluster-form Jug, Britain, c. 1810, banded in ochre, rust, and dark brown with massive dipped fans in marbled white, brown, and rust slip, the handle with foliate terminals, (minor chips),ht. 9 1/2 in. Provenance: Sold as Lot #1, Skinner Americana Sale #1274, October, 1989.! Literature: "Mocha Ware," Jonathan Rickard, The Magazine Antiques, August, 1993; Kitchen Ceramics, Slesin, Rozenstroich & Cliff, Abbeville Press, 1997; A Collector's History of English Pottery, Griselda Lewis, The Antique Collectors' Club, Fifth Revised Edition, 1999.! Exhibitions: Mocha Mania, The Dewitt Wallace Gallery, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, 1993-94; The Turner's Art, The Jones Museum of Glass and Ceramics, Douglas Hill, Maine 1996; Rhode Island Collects Ceramics, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1997.
Estimate $10,000-15,000