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This lot comprises five earthenware Toby jugs and one teapot in a traditional Staffordshire style, featuring varied hand-painted polychrome and monochrome glazes. The collection includes two pieces finished in a dark brown manganese glaze, one formed as a teapot with a central projecting spout and rear handle, and the other as a standard jug, both with unglazed bases. The polychrome figures include a large Ordinary Toby jug in a blue coat and yellow waistcoat holding a foaming mug, with an incised mark to the base that appears to read O.E. A smaller jug features a blue coat and pink waistcoat with a distinctively molded handle in the form of a white putto or child. One advertising jug depicts a figure in a green coat and red breeches, with molded text to the octagonal base reading TOBY and ALE IN BOTTLE on the front, and HOARE & COs on the reverse. This piece bears a printed circular mark to the underside reading JAMES GREEN & NEPHEW, DESIGNERS &, MANUFACTURERS, LONDON. The final figure is seated in a high-backed chair holding a long clay pipe and a small jug, hand-painted in a blue coat and red breeches.
Condition report:
All pieces exhibit fine all-over crazing to the glaze consistent with age (photos 1-17). The seated figure holding a pipe has a professionally repaired handle with visible join lines and areas of overpainting (photo 15, 17, 18). The small jug with the putto handle has a small chip to the black glaze on the front rim of the tricorn hat (photo 11). The brown glazed teapot shows minor firing flaws and small chips around the unglazed foot rim (photo 5). The advertising jug exhibits light rubbing to the hand-painted decoration on the red breeches (photo 12).
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