21st Nov, 2024 11:00
European Works of Art, Objects & Silver
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A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE JUG, DATED 1827
the globular body with fluted panels, decorated to one side with a weaver at a handloom above the legend 'Success to the Lancashire Weavers' and to the other with figures in a country house park, inscribed below the spout 'JB / 1827' within a floral wreath, with floral neck below a puce lustre rim, 22.5cm high
The falling incomes and difficult conditions of the Lancashire handloom weavers in the early 19th century led to demonstrations in April 1826 and attacks on the powerlooms seen as a threat to their livelihoods.
the globular body with fluted panels, decorated to one side with a weaver at a handloom above the legend 'Success to the Lancashire Weavers' and to the other with figures in a country house park, inscribed below the spout 'JB / 1827' within a floral wreath, with floral neck below a puce lustre rim, 22.5cm high
The falling incomes and difficult conditions of the Lancashire handloom weavers in the early 19th century led to demonstrations in April 1826 and attacks on the powerlooms seen as a threat to their livelihoods.
Auction: European Works of Art, Objects & Silver, 21st Nov, 2024
The auction ‘European Works of Art, Objects and Silver’ is one of our biannual live sales offering a range of ceramics, sculpture and works of art, silver from around the world, and objects of vertu.
Highlights in this sale include finely painted KPM plaques, Russian Easter eggs, a marble figure of a young woman by Cesare Lapini, Persian and Iraqi silver, Art Deco Puiforcat silver, Victorian naturalistic silver and fifty lots of silver boxes and smallwork from a private London collection.
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19 Nov 2024 10:00 - 17:00
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