A Vauxhall stoneware named and dated Royal portrait mug

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A Vauxhall stoneware named and dated Royal portrait mug
with ribbed strap handle, moulded with a quarter-length portrait of Queen Anne within an oval panel between the name Edward Venden above the date 1722, applied with a hunting scene, the rim inscribed This Is to the Pious memory of Queen Ann (sic.), 1722 (rim chips) -- 20.7cm. high
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Lot Essay

Cf. Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery part II (1982), no.31 for a silver-mounted example with a portrait of Queen Anne dated 1721; see also Robin Hildyard, Browne Muggs, English Brown Stoneware (1985), p.57, no.120 and p.58, no.125 for examples with similar portraits.
A similar mug, from the Bute Collection, sold in our St. James's Rooms, 8th July 1996, lot 184.

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