A RARE AND UNUSUAL ENGLISH BROWN STONEWARE DATED PUZZLE JUG 1741 |

probably London, sprigged with an oval panel molded with a harbor scene entitled PORTO:BELLO flanked by the incised name 'Jos=', 'Puttock' above the date '17=41', the slender neck pierced with two bands of stylized foliate devices beneath three short spouts at the rim, the loop handle applied with raised rosettes.

Jonathan Horne, London
Syd Levethan, through private purchase
Vogel Collection no. 658

Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part VI, Cat. no. 142

The front spout with a chipped lower section. The handle probably lacking an applied flower head at lower terminal, associated to production.
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Dated brown stoneware puzzle jugs are particularly rare, a puzzle jug inscribed 'Ed Lindsdal Thaxted Essex 1751' sold at Sotheby's, London, March 29, 1960, lot 13, is referenced by Adrian Oswald et al., English Brown Stoneware 1670-1900, London, 1982, p. 48. A puzzle jug of similar form to the present lot was sold, Sotheby's, London, September 15, 1992, lot 187. See lot 682 in this sale for a 'Portobello' white salt-glazed tankard.