A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE ERMINE-GROUND JACOBITE TANKARD

Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE ERMINE-GROUND JACOBITE TANKARD
CIRCA 1770

With strap handle and flaring base enamelled in colours with a portrait of Frederick, King of Prussia on a turquoise ground within moulded flowering branches reserved on the black ermine-pattern ground (restored rim chip, chip restuck on base and associated crack)--3¾in. (9.5cm.) high
Provenance
Thomas Scholes Collection, Sale Sotheby's London, November 14, 1961 Lot 184 (to Tilley & Co. on behalf of Kenneth Chorley)
Literature
Antiques Magazine, October 1964