£280
MR PUNCH INKWELL. 5ins tall, highly varied/ speckled salt glaze. Mr Punch seated snugly, one leg crossed over other, sat in round backed armchair. Pen in one hand. Modelled after Richard Doyles famous wrapper for the magazine of the same name cashing in on its popularity. GARDNERS INK WORKS/ LOWER WHITE CROSS ST. LONDON impressed at back, applied clay diamond mark with codes impressed. Registration lodged in name of John Gardner, April 1851 (class IV, no. 78257). Scarcely seen, classic, early English pottery figural. Minor nicks.
8.5/10
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