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Lot 141

Six British Prattware Ceramic Items

Estimate: $400 - $600

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

late 18th/early 19th century, comprising: teapot depicting a putto pulling a goat by the horns to one side, the other a goat kicking a fox, with leafy borders, lobed finial, 6 in.; "Mischievous Sport and Sportive Innocence" tankard, circa 1795, one side depicting two children, one holding a doll, the other a dog by the leash, the other side one child holds up a gruesome mask, frightening her companion who falls in alarm, each in heart form cartouches, leaf and chain link borders, 6 in.; figures of Autumn, holding a sheath of corn, and a scythe, draped figure with a putto at her feet, taller 8-3/4 in.; Castleford type stoneware lidded sugar, depicting eagle with spread wings and 13 stars to one side, and a profile of Liberty in a Phrygian cap, decorated with ferns, acanthus borders, fluted finial, 5-5/8 in.; vessel lacking lid, depicting putto with animals in a landscape, maidens standing next to an urn and an obelisk, with pitchers next to their feet, 4-1/4 in.; together with a Prattware style plate, circa 17980, depicting figures in a garden near a rocky outcropping, fruit and floral borders in relief, 8-1/8 in.

Note: Tankard see Pratt Ware 1780-1840, by John and Griselda Lewis, Baron Publishing, 1984, page 188.

Autumn figure see Pratt Ware 1780-1840, by John and Griselda Lewis, Baron Publishing, 1984, page 260.

For a similar example to lidded sugar bowl see Pratt Ware 1780-1840, by John and Griselda Lewis, Baron Publishing, 1984, page 60.

Provenance: Private Charleston Collection

Condition

discoloration, spotting, scratching, hairlines, anomalies (as made), chips, repaired breaks to sugar lid, dirty interiors, wear to bases, cracks