£1,500 - £2,000
A WORCESTER CABBAGE LEAF MOULDED MASK JUG decorated in underglaze blue with three floral sprays and polychrome enamelled and gilded with fruit, flowerheads, insects and leafage, the neck rim with stiff gilt leaves and seeding, polychrome detailed bearded mask spout, scroll handle, 22cm high, marked 'S' in underglaze blue, initialled LBK and dated 1784. See illustration
No cracks or major chips or restoration.
Some rubbing to gilt on the body and to prominent parts of handle.
The gilt on the tip of the spout has flaked and the glaze under is pitted.
There is a 0.25cm spot on rim similarly affected
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