A LONDON (SOUTHWARK) DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE MUG of tapering cylindrical form with strap handle and moulded with five bands of raised dimple ornament, boldly painted with a crowned escutcheon enclosing the initials .B./G.W/1653 flanked by scrolling foliage and with a bearded mask below issuant with scrolls (repair to rim and with associated crack, minor rim chips and glaze flaking to rims and to edges of handle), 1653

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A LONDON (SOUTHWARK) DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE MUG of tapering cylindrical form with strap handle and moulded with five bands of raised dimple ornament, boldly painted with a crowned escutcheon enclosing the initials ^.B^./G^.W/1653 flanked by scrolling foliage and with a bearded mask below issuant with scrolls (repair to rim and with associated crack, minor rim chips and glaze flaking to rims and to edges of handle), 1653
19cm. high

Lot Essay

For a similarly moulded and decorated posset-pot and cover dated 1651 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain, pl. 85, no. 1319 and for an undecorated mug of this form in the Museum of London (No. A. 13469) see Frank Britton, London Delftware, p. 119, no. 63

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