A LIVERPOOL DELFT TRANSFER-PRINTED MUG

CIRCA 1760, THE PRINT INSCRIBED SADLER LIVERPOOL

Details

A LIVERPOOL DELFT TRANSFER-PRINTED MUG
CIRCA 1760, THE PRINT INSCRIBED SADLER LIVERPOOL
Cylindrical with a grooved handle, printed in black after a 1751 engraving by Muller after Boitard with the TYTHE PIG above the corresponding verse
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high

Provenance

E. S. Price and Ernest Allman Collections; Sotheby's, London 12 January 1965, lot 10.
E. Norman Stretton; Phillips, London, 21 February, 2001, lot 161.
With Jonathan Horne, London, 2001.

Literature

E.S. Price, 'John Sadler' A Liverpool Pottery Printer, privately pub., 1948, pl. 8 and 'Samuel Gilbody', Apollo, April 1953, fig. 1. Norman Stretton, 'Early Sadler Prints of Wedgwood Creamware', Wedgwood Society Proceedings, No. 8, pl. 16.
Norman Stretton, 'John Sadler and Guy Green', Collectors Guide, fig. 5.
Norman Stretton, 'Transfer Printing by Sadler and Green on Wedgwood Creamware', Antique Collecting, November 1973, fig. 13.

Exhibited

Temple Newsam, Leeds, Northern Ceramics Society Exhibition, 1974, no. 6.
Morley College, London, Liverpool Ceramics 1700-1900, 1980.
Liverpool, Northern Ceramics Society Exhibition, Made in Liverpool, 1993, cat. no. 187.
Phillips, London, Liverpool Exhibition, 1997, no. 11/15.

If you wish to view the condition report of this lot, please sign in to your account.

View condition report

Lot Essay

It is interesting to note that the print source for this mug is referenced in correspondence between Sadler and Wedgwood; letters dated 29 April 1763 and 7 October 1763. Closely related creamware and porcelain mugs were produced by Wedgwood, Chaffers and Worcester in the early 1760s.

More from Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection

View All