A Philip Christian Liverpool porcelain lamprey handled cream jug c.1775

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A Philip Christian Liverpool porcelain lamprey handled cream jug c.1775Description. Elaborately moulded, with the lamprey handle which was (rather inexplicably) popular on porcelain creamers of the mid late 18thc (Worcester, amongst others, also produced similar designs). The probable explanation of the lamprey motif is that the fish was plentiful both in the Severn and Mersey rivers and would have constituted a cheap (or even free) source of food. Somewhat crudely painted with stylised floral sprays. Unmarked, but a

amongst others

We have examined the pattern books of the Leeds

Coalport very often sold items under the CBD brand – appropriate given that the factory was in Coalbrookdale

If there is anything that you specifically collect

within which are purple stylised flowers

a light colour is

No gilder's marks

An urn-shaped vase

with a magnificent botanical study of "Prickly Seeded Pavonia"

with archaic style handles

but the painted decoration would be from the mid 1770s

No other evident defects