8th Jan, 2021 9:30 GMT/BST

Country House Sale (Part I) - Online Auction

 
  Lot 65
 

65

A Herculaneum Pottery Robert Stephenson Commemorative Frog Mug, circa 1833-36, initialled RA...

A Herculaneum Pottery Robert Stephenson Commemorative Frog Mug, circa 1833-36, initialled RA and printed in black with Exchange Buildings & Nelson's Monument Liverpool and flanked by locomotives, titled THE NORTHUMBRIAN OF MESSRS R STEPHENSON and THE ROCKET OF MESSRS STEPHENSON & C, the interior with a bust portrait of Queen Adelaide and with two further prints titled CARRIAGES FOR PASSENGERS and THE NOVELTY OF MESSRS BRAITHWAITE & ERICSSON, a naturalistically modelled frog to the base, printed mark, 13cm high See Smith (Alan) The Illustrated Guide to Liverpool Herculaneum Pottery 1796-1840, pl.176 for a similar example. Stephenson's Rocket and Braithwaite & Ericsson's Novelty ran at the Rainhill Steam Trials on 6th October 1829. Of the five entrants, Stephenson's Rocket was the only locomotive to complete the trial and was declared the winner. The Novelty was considerably faster than the other locomotives but a failed boiler pipe damaged the engine during the trial. Following the trial, the Northumbrian, built in 1830 and the last of Stephenson's Rocket-style locomotives, was then used at the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.

Sold for £2,200
Estimated at £500 - £700


 

. The frog is missing his two front legs. The glaze is crazed all over with some light staining. There are four short hair cracks from the rim showing to the internal glaze only. 12.25cm high by 12.5cm diameter

 


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Auction: Country House Sale (Part I) - Online Auction, 8th Jan, 2021

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