FIVE STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE YELLOW-GROUND CHILDREN'S MUGS

CIRCA 1820

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FIVE STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE YELLOW-GROUND CHILDREN'S MUGS
Circa 1820
Four printed in iron-red, two with the advice My Son If Sinners Entice Thee, Consent Thou Not Lest Disgrace Come Upon Thee; one with two boys playing ball above the inscription FOR MY FAVORITE; one with a boy playing a pipe in a lanscape, a church at the left; the sixth decorated in silver lutre resist with a leafy vine, applied and coloured with scattered decals of animals
2in. (5.1cm.) heigh, on average

Lot Essay

See J. Jefferson Miller II, English Yellow-Glazed Earthenware, Smithsonian Instituition, 1974, plate for a large jug attributed to the Herculaneum Pottery, Liverpool and decorated with small prints enriched in color similar to the present largest mug.

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