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Liverpool creamware jugs reflect taste of the American market
20 January 2020The two-day sale at Case Antiques of Knoxville, Tennessee, on January 25-26 includes a number of Liverpool creamware jugs depicting a range of subject matter.
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Political picks: a 1975 EU election poster and a jug celebrating Gladstone's victory
07 November 2019Fans of politics may be tempted to snap up historical election mementoes in the run up to polling day next month.
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Pick of the week: American saleroom signals the way to English creamware
26 August 2019Some of the rarest and most desirable of all English creamware jugs were those made for the American market. One of them, titled Signals at Portland Observatory, sold for $4400/£3600 (plus premium) at the Bourgeault-Horan auction in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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Lord Mackintosh’s viola player is toast of Toby jug collection at Bonhams
12 June 2019Late Spring or early summer is a traditional slot in the London auction schedule for Bonhams’ ceramics and glass sales. The latest, devoted to glass and British ceramics, took place in the firm’s Knightsbridge rooms last week.
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Queen Anne ale jug could be a favourite buy at BBR fair
08 April 2019The story of Queen Anne, who ruled from 1702 to her death in 1714, is now much more widely known after the Oscar-winning portrayal by Olivia Colman in 'The Favourite'.
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Peterloo pearlware jug offered at Art & Antiques for Everyone fair on bicentenary of massacre in Manchester
25 March 2019A rare antique jug commemorating the events of the Peterloo Massacre is on offer in Birmingham on the 200th anniversary of the event.
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Frank Hinks QC: How to handle a jug addiction
21 January 2019In the first of a new occasional series of collector interviews ATG talks to barrister, author and illustrator, Frank Hinks QC.
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Three early pieces of pottery and glass at auction
07 January 2019Serendipity had it that three early pieces of European pottery and glass – two of them dated – were offered for sale across a trio of English regional auctions in a matter of days in December.
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Vincennes porcelain jug with royal connection emerges at Bonhams
01 December 2016This French porcelain hot water jug, or ‘pot à eau’ was made at the Vincennes factory in 1754, probably for the Dauphine Maria Josepha. The mother of King Louis XVI, who was guillotined during the French Revolution, she was an important patron of Vincennes.
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Fitzwilliam Museum buys Coalport jug at Agricultural Society auction
25 July 2014A massive Coalport Feldspar porcelain jug painted with a study of Earl Spencer’s Durham Ox in a parkland setting has been bought by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
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The different faces of the Doulton market
23 October 2012In a marketplace seriously in need of entry-level collectors, the great majority of Royal Doulton character jugs and HN series figures are worth under £100 – and most of them less than £30 when sold without reserve at auction.
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Hats off to Drake
07 July 2012Flick through the pages of an issue of ATG in the 1980s and there are many references to the rising market for Royal Doulton character jugs.
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Nelson touch propels Doulton character jug to £5400
27 June 2012The attractions of variations from run-of-the-mill ceramics extends to all factories, and the recent sale of a Royal Doulton 'Nelson' jug showed how the presence of a rare backstamp mark can increase the value of an item 100 times over.
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Marie Antoinette’s jug sells at auction for €880,000
21 February 2011A PIECE from a celebrated but elusive porcelain service that turned up at the latest sale at Aguttes in Paris understandably caused great excitement.
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Porcelain precursor to Peterloo at £2200
06 September 2010THIS 8½in (21cm) English porcelain jug painted with a cavalryman on horseback probably dates from c.1817 when, following rioting in the spring, magistrates in Manchester decided to form the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry Cavalry.
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Nelson twice remembered in miniature and pottery
22 September 2004JAMES Sillett was a jobbing artist from the Norwich School of painters, who worked on a broad spectrum of projects including heraldic painting and stage scene decoration, but he is best known as a competent miniaturist.
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Memories of Peterloo Massacre
22 September 2004TO one side of this 4.75in (12cm) high early 19th century lustre and transfer printed jug are the legends No Corn Bill, Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments and Vote by Ballot.
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Lambeth tows the line at BBR
22 June 2004RARELY one to miss a commercial opportunity, from pub jugs to caviar pots, Henry Doulton’s potworks in Lambeth produced stoneware advertising novelties for many local businesses. There are, for example, a series of paperweights made for the Thames boat people carrying the names of the companies who commissioned them as gifts for their best clients.
Bonnie Prince Charlie to the rescue
09 January 2003CHESHIRE auctioneers Peter Wilson, (15% buyer’s premium) found it hard going at their November 27-28 sale at Nantwich with only 60 per cent of the 720 lots getting away – but where obvious quality was on offer, bidders were keen enough.
Nelson is pride of blue and white
24 July 2002English blue and white pottery may not be the most fashionable ceramic collecting area, but the 144-lot Patricia Davis collection offered in the June 11 morning session at Sworders Essex rooms suffered only 22 casualties.
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