Lidded cigarette jar, front.
Modelled as a smoker, the cigarette smoke perhaps rising into the smoker's left eye causing it to partially close. The lid modelled as a wide-brimmed hat, the back scored to make a matchstrike, the top indented to act as a rest for a cigarette, and the back upturned to form an ashtray within the hat’s brim.
Mark: Hand-incised Salopian script mark with initials JAH of James Arthur Hartshorne
Height: 130mm / 5in
Date: c.1900–1910
More images of this piece can be seen here: J.A.Hartshorne grotesques
Provenance: Private collection, UK