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1686
Details
A London delft polychrome dated mug
1686
Of globular form, with loop handle and short cylindrical neck, painted with the initials ·A·N· above the date 1686 and a calligraphic flourish, within a cartouche of entwined fronds, flanked by two birds with ochre wings and tails, holding a berried branch and pecking at seed between blue and ochre line bands (minute flaking to top rim)
3½ in. (9 cm.) high
1686
Of globular form, with loop handle and short cylindrical neck, painted with the initials ·A·N· above the date 1686 and a calligraphic flourish, within a cartouche of entwined fronds, flanked by two birds with ochre wings and tails, holding a berried branch and pecking at seed between blue and ochre line bands (minute flaking to top rim)
3½ in. (9 cm.) high
Provenance
J.W.G. Thomas, sale Sotheby's, 13 June 1961, lot 18.
Literature
Lipski and Archer, op. cit. (1984), p. 176, no. 793.