Scottish Cumnock mottoware sugar sifter with silverplate Scotch Thistle lid, c. 1890
$245.00 AUD
Scottish slipware ‘Mottoware’ sugar-sifter in the form of an 18th century baluster-shape tea canister, Scotch Thistle knop to the silver plate lid, inscribed ‘Sugar, ye may gang faurer an fare waur’ – translated: ‘You may go further and do a lot worse‘.
Lid hallmarked ‘JS & S’ forJoseph Sankey and Sons, Staffordshire
Inscribed to base ‘Cumnock ‘, for the Scottish pottery near Glasgow of the same name,
Circa 1890
Good condition
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