Lot 34 A remarkable Staffordshire slipware owl jug and cover, circa 1690-1710

A remarkable Staffordshire slipware owl jug and cover, circa 1690-1710

GBP 20,000

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Of baluster form, modelled in the shape of an owl with modelled wings and tail feathers, the cover forming the head, the glazed chestnut-red body strikingly trailed and dotted in dark brown and cream coloured slip representing the bird's eyes and plumage, its breast and face marbled in the same coloured slips, its talons gripping the spreading circular foot, the reverse applied with a loop handle, 23.5cm high (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
Peter MacTaggart Collection
Literature
White, Mary, Living at the Whites' House, Vol. 4, 2023, p. 27
Trailed and dotted owl jugs are much rarer than those of celebrated 'Ozzy' type with joggled slip decoration, see that sold by Phillips on 7 March 1990, lot 217, now in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (inv. no.STKMG:1990.P.432), and also the example illustrated by Leslie B Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Vol.1, 2000, p.142, no.S81. An owl jug with very similar slip decoration to the present lot was sold by Christie's on 18 May 1999, lot 1. Another with related decoration in the Fitzwilliam Museum (inv. no.C.252 & A-1928) is illustrated by Bernard Rackham, , 1935, p.41, no.252 and col. pl.III.