£850
Mr PUNCH INKWELL. 4.7ins tall, salt glaze, highly varied/ speckled. Mr Punch inkwell is seated snugly, one leg crossed over the other, in a round backed armchair. Smiling slightly madly, and, looking to his right he holds a pen in that hand. He wears a drooping belled hat, ruff, striped coat and pantaloons. His hump, sliced off like a boiled egg, is the font. Modelled after Richard Doyles famous wrapper for the magazine of the same name perhaps cashing in on its popularity. GARDNERS INK WORKS / LOWER WHITE CROSS ST. LONDON impressed at back, above an applied clay diamond mark with codes impressed. The registration was lodged in the name of John Gardner in April 1851 (class IV, no. 78257). Another scarcely seen, classic, early English pottery figural ink. Usual inmanufacture flaws. NR
(9.5/10)
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