Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál & Elizabeth Feller - Day 1 - 9th November 2021

Lot 447

A MASSIVE BROWN STONEWARE SALT GLAZED POTTERY ALE / HARVEST JUG

Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £2000

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Description

A MASSIVE BROWN STONEWARE SALT GLAZED POTTERY ALE / HARVEST JUG

POSSIBLY SCOTTISH, EARLY TO MID-19TH CENTURY

with relief moulded decoration, the upper section with a brown dip glaze, the rim with bands of flowers above a fox hut and a band of country folk, drinking, smoking pipes, dancing and harvesting, with windmills and the Royal Coat of Arms

56cm high

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

See Adrian Oswald, R. J. C. Hildyard and R. G. Hughes, 'English Brown Stoneware', p.224, fig. 171a for a very similar example by the Caledonian Pottery, Glasgow now in the Glasgow Museum.