Lot 158: Burrett Field Potter Sydney Impressed Ginger Beer

Good. An amazingly crude bottle, this bottle does have extensive chipping around the lip, mostly internally. On the front right side there is a 20 x 15 mm inner lip chip which does just encroach on the front by a mm or two. This chip is jagged internally, sort of like a chip inside a chip. Around to the left of this is some shallow upper lip chipping, about 12 x 5 mm, and then after a few mm another jagged section of chipping about 15 x 4 mm, but very shallow and on the very upper lip. There is 10 mm of good lip with some very light wear, and then a shallow outer lip chip, 10 x 11 mm. The next 20 mm of lip is good with only light wear, then we are back to the first inner lip chip. Going down to the shoulder, there is light wear around the shoulder, a couple of small, shallow glaze flakes above the Burrett stamp, to the left of the stamp is a large chip, 18 x 10 mm and about 1 mm deep at the worst. Below this on the body is a shallow chip, 5 x 6 mm. Some light glaze wear to the body, mainly around the upper region and around the base. Around the base are a few very small flakes. There are some pottery blowouts from manufacture. This is a superb piece of pottery which is very early, it has an unusual shape and a nice narrow lip, which has an unusually large opening compared to normal (from the inside of the lip on one side to the inner lip across from this is about 25 mm). There are some unusual tool applied bands around the middle of the bottle, it looks as if these were intended to be there? This is a superb rarity, a broken example exists in a museum, there is possibly another example known? Grade: 6.1 Estimate: $7000 - 7500