21st Jul, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Summer Fine Art Sale

 
Lot 44
 

44

A Creamware "Thin Man " Toby Jug, circa 1780, seated wearing a manganese tricorn hat, blue...

A Creamware "Thin Man" Toby Jug, circa 1780, seated wearing a manganese tricorn hat, blue jacket and green breeches, smoking a pipe, a jug in his left hand, 25cm high See illustration

Sold for £2,000
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500


 

Typical rim chips to hat, restoration to stem of pipe and right arm, some misfiring to jug, old restoration to right foot, large chip to toe of left foot, section of hat broken out and restuck, some typical minor wear throughout.

 


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Auction: Summer Fine Art Sale, 21st Jul, 2018

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