A Liverpool Philip Christian’s Porcelain Sparrow Beak Jug 1765-70

Description

Heading :A Liverpool Philip Christian’s Porcelain Sparrow Beak Jug
Date : 1765-1770
Period : George III
Marks :None
Origin :Shaw’s Brow Factory. Liverpool. England.
Colour :Blue and white
Pattern :Painted with the ‘Bird on a Branch’ pattern
Condition :Faint spider crack to base and overglazed basal rim chip
Restoration :None
Dimensions : Height 9.5cm
Weight : 103g

Eric Knowles Comments

Although this pattern was popular with other Liverpool potters of that period for a Philip Christian teapot painted in this same pattern with the identical treatment See Liverpool Porcelain 1756-1804 .Hillis Maurice page 247. plate6.59