Staffordshire, mid 18th century, molded tiled roof and walls with many windows and numerous birds sitting on window ledges, 9-3/8 x 4 x 4 in.
Provenance: An Important Atlanta Private Collection
Note: A notably similar example can be seen in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, Object Number: 40.171.8, see: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/238026.
Other similar examples can be seen in A Collection of Early English Pottery part X by Jonathan Horne, fig. 275, in the Henry H. Weldon Collection, see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800, pg. 404-5, no. 248, and selling at Sotheby's London, STYLE: European Silver, Gold Boxes and Ceramics, November 11, 2019, lot 131.
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An Important Atlanta Private Collection
overall good condition, crazing, glaze voids, and anomalies, some slight roughness to edges commensurate with age, repair and retouch to three birds on roof (see blacklight)
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