A Mortlake brown stoneware silver-mounted tankard

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A Mortlake brown stoneware silver-mounted tankard
applied with a rectangular plaque moulded with figures, known as the 'Punch Party', the lower section with a stag hunt, the mount stamped I.H, late 18th century (chip to corner of panel, crack across the base, surface cracks, dent to the rim) -- 21.7cm. high
See colour plate 1

Lot Essay

Cf. Robin Hildyard, Browne Mugs, English Brown Stoneware (1985), p. 68, no. 165 for a similar smaller example; also see the covered example from the Bute Collection, in our St. James's Rooms, 8th July 1996, lot 178.

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