Lot Essay
Cf. Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains, (2nd ed. 1985), p.27, pl.17 for three 'clobbered' mugs with similar prints and p.104, pl.123 for a cabbage leaf jug with similar prints.
Details
A Lowestoft blue and white cylindrical mug
with scroll handle, printed with two insects between loose sprays of flowers, the interior rim with a double blue line, indistinct underglaze blue numeral, circa 1775 (rim chip) -- 15cm. high
See colour plate 8
with scroll handle, printed with two insects between loose sprays of flowers, the interior rim with a double blue line, indistinct underglaze blue numeral, circa 1775 (rim chip) -- 15cm. high
See colour plate 8