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Nottingham 'Knights-type' Jug, England, 14th century,
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Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Nottingham 'Knights-type' Jug, England, 14th century, greenish-bronze colored glaze with central figure flanked by knights with horses, below with raised figures of horses, deer, boars and flying fish, ht. 18 1/2 in. Footnotes: Sold at Sotheby's London, 6 March 1990, lot 216 and described in the catalogue as the following: a Unique Nottingham 'Knights' jug, 13th/early 14th century. From the site of the Black Boy Hotel, Long Row, near the Old Market Square, Nottingham. Illustrated in R.C. Alvey, 'The Black Boy Jug', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1977. Previously on display at the Nottingham Castle Museum together with the well-known Moot Hall Jug. Whilst this lot is definitely attributable to Nottingham, fragments of 'Knights' jugs have been found on a variety of sites in Eastern England and examples with similar horsemen are illustrated in Bernard Rackham 'Medieval English pottery' plate 12A and in Jeremy Haslam 'Medieval pottery, fig. 28, no 11. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Nottingham 'Knights-type' Jug, England, 14th century, greenish-bronze colored glaze with central figure flanked by knights with horses, below with raised figures of horses, deer, boars and flying fish, ht. 18 1/2 in. Footnotes: Sold at Sotheby's London, 6 March 1990, lot 216 and described in the catalogue as the following: a Unique Nottingham 'Knights' jug, 13th/early 14th century. From the site of the Black Boy Hotel, Long Row, near the Old Market Square, Nottingham. Illustrated in R.C. Alvey, 'The Black Boy Jug', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1977. Previously on display at the Nottingham Castle Museum together with the well-known Moot Hall Jug. Whilst this lot is definitely attributable to Nottingham, fragments of 'Knights' jugs have been found on a variety of sites in Eastern England and examples with similar horsemen are illustrated in Bernard Rackham 'Medieval English pottery' plate 12A and in Jeremy Haslam 'Medieval pottery, fig. 28, no 11. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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