Neale & Company, Staffordshire, England, Pair of Ice Pails, 1810–1815
The Baltimore Museum of Art: Bequest of Mary Louise "Wheezie" Gutman, Baltimore, BMA 2009.48a-c and 2009.49a-c
This superb pair of Staffordshire ice pails, almost certainly derived from earlier Sèvres porcelains, represents the best in fine English earthenware. Embellished with gilt neoclassical figures on a rich copper-lustre ground, they numbered among the highlights of the lusterware collection assembled by Mary Louise Gutman.
