.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PERHAPS LIVERPOOL
Details
AN ENGLISH CREAMWARE TRANSFER PRINTED MUG
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PERHAPS LIVERPOOL
Printed with a bust-length portrait of ‘Admiral Lord Nelson’ below the inscription ‘England Expects every Man to do his Duty’; together with a gilt-metal bonbonniere, circa 1830, with embossed portrait of William Pitt and a Staffordshire pottery figure of Sir Robert Peel
The mug: 5 1/8 in. (12.9 cm.) high
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PERHAPS LIVERPOOL
Printed with a bust-length portrait of ‘Admiral Lord Nelson’ below the inscription ‘England Expects every Man to do his Duty’; together with a gilt-metal bonbonniere, circa 1830, with embossed portrait of William Pitt and a Staffordshire pottery figure of Sir Robert Peel
The mug: 5 1/8 in. (12.9 cm.) high
Provenance
The mug, by repute, a gift from Rupert Murdoch; the gilt-metal bonbonniere, given to Margaret Thatcher whilst serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Peter Brooke (later Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville).
Brought to you by
Alexandra Cruden