Lot Details
Lot 73
Longton Hall Porcelain Strawberry-Leaf Molded Jug
Circa 1755, unmarked
Of quatrefoil baluster form, the strawberry leaf molded spout with puce veins and trailing vine and an applied twisted vine handle, one side molded and enriched in puce and yellow with three pink carnations and a bud growing from curved green stems, the obverse molded with auricula and further foliage, the front finely painted with a bouquet of roses and other flowers.
Height 8 inches.
Provenance:
A. Evans, Esq. Collection.
Christie's, London, 19 April 1971, lot 108.
Exhibited:
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, October 2004 - January 2005
For a similar example see, Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 49B. Also see the Hurst Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum, no. C.263-1940; and another from the Katz Collection at the Museum Fine Arts Boston, accession no. 1988.901. For an example from the Mildred Hilson Collection, see Christie's, New York, 14 October 1995, lot 220.
C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
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