'Elisee Cohu, Guernsey' Transfer-printed Creamware Mug and Pitcher, Josiah Wedgwood and Ralph We...

'Elisee Cohu, Guernsey' Transfer-printed Creamware Mug and Pitcher, Josiah Wedgwood and Ralph Wedgwood & Co., Burslem, Staffordshire, England, late 18th century. The small milk pot with interlaced extruded handle printed in black to depict popular genre scenes on opposing walls, one variation on the 'Tea Party' pattern, the other, a seated shepherd with a dog and grazing sheep, impressed 'WEDGWOOD' on bottom; together with a large creamware mug, the frontispiece depicting a cattle driver in scroll-framed oval reserve, inscribed 'Elisee Cohu, Guernsey, 1789' above, the bottom impressed 'WEDGWOOD &C.' along foot, (mug) wd. 6, dp. 4 1/8, ht. 6 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Dorothy-Lee Jones Ward (1948-2022), Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Sebago, Maine. Literature A matching creamware teapot and platter inscribed 'Elisee Cohu Guernsey 1789' have been published and identified as wedding gifts descended in a Channel Islands family. See Stephen Cohu, 'The Cohu Family Teapot - Elisee Cohu Guernsey 1789' The Jersey Life (4 July 2017), cited in 'Farmhouse and Cattle,' Transferware Collectors Club Database of Patterns and Sources, no. 19434. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing