A rare Yorkshire creamware Toby jug c.1780

A rare Yorkshire creamware Toby jug c.1780, seated with a massive clay pipe, holding an empty jug moulded with Cupid to two sides and with a face beneath the spout, with caryatid handle, all picked out in a deep manganese and raised on a rare flat base, the top of his pipe stem restored, 24.5cm.

Provenance: the Coil collection, Boston, 2006. Paper labels for Ginsburg & Levy, and for Bernard & S Dean Levy Inc.