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Ridgway Drabware Footbath Jug. Circa 1845
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Ridgway Drabware Footbath Jug. Circa 1845

19th century
Sold 12 June 2025 · Vanbrugh West Antiques Ltd
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Description

A rare and Drabware Footbath Jug, featuring elegant gilded decorations. It has a great presence due to its scale.

Measures: 33×20.5×33 cms

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Vanbrugh West Antiques Ltd has dated this Ridgway Drabware Footbath Jug to the 1850s.

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Description
A rare and Drabware Footbath Jug, featuring elegant gilded decorations. It has a great presence due to its scale.

Measures: 33×20.5×33 cms

Date of Manufacture

Vanbrugh West Antiques Ltd has dated this Ridgway Drabware Footbath Jug to the 1850s.

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Vanbrugh West Antiques Ltd
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An antique Ridgway drabware footbath jug in a neutral beige tone featuring gilt accents, a curved handle, and a side handle against a white background. SOLD6+ MONTHS AGO
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Archive I An antique Ridgway drabware footbath jug in a neutral beige tone featuring gilt accents, a curved handle, and a side handle against a white background. SOLD6+ MONTHS AGO

Ridgway Drabware Footbath Jug. Circa 1845

Archive II An antique Ridgway drabware footbath jug in a neutral beige tone featuring gilt accents, a curved handle, and a side handle against a white background. View II
Archive III An antique Ridgway drabware footbath jug in a neutral beige tone featuring gilt accents, a curved handle, and a side handle against a white background. View III
Archive IV An antique Ridgway drabware footbath jug in a neutral beige tone featuring gilt accents, a curved handle, and a side handle against a white background. View IV
Archive V An antique Ridgway drabware footbath jug in a neutral beige tone featuring gilt accents, a curved handle, and a side handle against a white background. View V
Archive VI An antique Ridgway drabware footbath jug in a neutral beige tone featuring gilt accents, a curved handle, and a side handle against a white background. View VI
Archive VII An antique Ridgway drabware footbath jug in a neutral beige tone featuring gilt accents, a curved handle, and a side handle against a white background. View VII
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Vanbrugh West Antiques Ltd
Telephone 07801 650780
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Admiral Vernon Arcade (Basement Level)
141 Portobello Road
London
W11 2QB
United Kingdom
Dealer Profile Page sellingantiques.co.uk/vanbrughwest
Verified Since Jan 2022
Items For Sale 61
Items Sold 397
Vanbrugh West Antiques Ltd
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An antique Ridgway drabware footbath jug in a neutral beige tone featuring gilt accents, a curved handle, and a side handle against a white background.
Ridgway Drabware Footbath Jug. Circa 1845
Ref: SA1137310
An antique Ridgway drabware footbath jug in a neutral beige tone featuring gilt accents, a curved handle, and a side handle against a white background.
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Written by Sellingantiques from the dealer’s photographs and listing
  • ObjectJugs & Pitchers
  • Period19th century
  • StyleVictorian
  • MaterialCeramic, Earthenware, Gilding
  • ColourDrab Brown
  • MotifsGilt trim, Scalloped rim, Dual handles, Pedestal base

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Drabware is a type of unglazed or salt-glazed stoneware or earthenware featuring a muted brownish-grey or beige body, which gained significant popularity in England during the late 18th and 19th centuries.

Potters typically utilised refined earthenware or stoneware clay bodies tinted with metallic oxides to achieve the characteristic flat, neutral drab colouration, often accented with gilding or applied reliefs.

Authentic pieces are identified through makers marks, crazing in the glaze, weight, potting technique, and consistency with historical manufacturing styles from potteries such as Ridgway.

Such pieces function well as sculptural display objects on a sideboard or mantelpiece, or repurposed as dry floral vases to introduce historical texture into neutral modern schemes.

Earthenware should be hand washed gently using mild soap and lukewarm water, avoiding immersion for extended periods, harsh scrubbing, and dishwashers to protect fragile historical glazes and gilding.
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