Four Samuel Hollins Dry Body Wares

Description:

Four Samuel Hollins Dry Body Wares, England, c. 1800, each with silver lustre trim lines, three with impressed mark: a rosso antico jug with engine turnings, ht. 6 3/8, two brown drab items with classical relief above engine turning, a covered sugar bowl, ht. 4 1/2, and a footed jar, ht. 4 3/4; and an unmarked gray drab jug with figures in relief above engine-turning, traces of a painted monogram to the neck, ht. 6 3/8 in.
Estimate $400-600

Rosso antico jug: Light lustre wear along edge of rim.
Covered sugar: Considerable lustre wear and firing line to ball finial. Scattered light lustre wear to cover and bowl rim.
Footed jar: Missing cover; 1/2" rim chip repair.
Gray jug: Lustre wear to top rim.


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