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1792, JOHN AND JANE PENNINGTON'S FACTORY
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A LIVERPOOL INSCRIBED AND DATED BALUSTER MUG
1792, JOHN AND JANE PENNINGTON'S FACTORY
With moulded double-scroll handle, painted with a gentleman seated in a ladder-back armchair before a tripod table with a decanter and pipe before him, holding a glass of ale, beneath a tree flanked by two female oriental attendants and inscribed JAMES BOULTON, 1792 and between iron-red loop line and dot-pattern rims (small crack and damage to rim, some staining to rim and handle)
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
1792, JOHN AND JANE PENNINGTON'S FACTORY
With moulded double-scroll handle, painted with a gentleman seated in a ladder-back armchair before a tripod table with a decanter and pipe before him, holding a glass of ale, beneath a tree flanked by two female oriental attendants and inscribed JAMES BOULTON, 1792 and between iron-red loop line and dot-pattern rims (small crack and damage to rim, some staining to rim and handle)
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Wallace Elliot, sale Sotheby's, 6th May 1938, lot 332.
Ernest Allman.
Gordon A. Rust, sale Sotheby Parke Bernet, 17th December 1975, lot 64.
Ernest Allman.
Gordon A. Rust, sale Sotheby Parke Bernet, 17th December 1975, lot 64.
Literature
Bernard M. Watney, Liverpool Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, (Shepton Beauchamp, 1997), fig. 377.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium