Auction 68 · Lot 56
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.
- Estimate
- $700–$1,000
- Hammer price
- $650
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
SMALL ENGLISH PORCELAIN ANTI-SEMITIC CUP.
Publication
pre-1887
summary
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.