straight sided tea cup painted with images of village-folk: the jewish peddler, the fish monger and the beggar; with additional decorative border of fanciful design along upper rim and base. Marked: davenport. Height: 2.625; Diameter: 2.75 Inches.
AUCTION 68 |
Thursday, April 07th,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 56
SMALL ENGLISH PORCELAIN ANTI-SEMITIC CUP.
straight sided tea cup painted with images of village-folk: the jewish peddler, the fish monger and the beggar; with additional decorative border of fanciful design along upper rim and base. Marked: davenport. Height: 2.625; Diameter: 2.75 Inches.
pre-1887
Est: $700 - $1,000
PRICE REALIZED $650
The idiosyncratic English Jew is here portrayed as a peddler of old clothes. The image was likely taken from an engraving of a Jewish “Old-Clothes-Man” making a sale at a noble house. See A. Rubens, A Jewish Iconography (1981) no. 1147.