Mocha-decorated Pearlware Double Jug

Description:

Mocha-decorated Pearlware Double Jug, England, c. 1830-40, the mouths decorated with doubled blue slip lines above a dark brown slip field with tan and light blue cat's-eye decoration, triple wavy light brown slip banding on body above a dark brown slip band bordered by doubled light blue slip bands with cat's-eye decoration; an applied molded handle joins the jugs at the mouth along with a marbled cat's-eye slip around the area where the bodies merge, (imperfections),ht. 10, wd. 14 1/2, dp. 7 in.

Exhibitions: Mocha Mania, DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Colonial Williamsburg, 1993-1994, and published in "The Magazine Antiques," August 1993, p. 188.
Estimate $5,000-7,000

Base of covered jug restored.


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