Lot 168
Staffordshire Yellow-Ground Silver Lustre ‘Burdett’ Jug, c.1810
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Provenance:
Richard G. Meech Collection, Toronto
Note:
Inscribed below the portrait ‘The determined enemy of corruption & the / constitutional friend of his SOVEREIGN’ and on the other side ‘SIR FRANCIS BURDETT / Bart. M.P / Committed to the Tower / by the House of Commons for firmly / and disinterestedly asserting / the legal rights of / the British / people.’