A DERBYSHIRE STONEWARE DATED LOVING-CUP with reeded strap handles, the thistle-shaped body stamped and rouletted with stylised flower-sprays, the flared neck inscribed Long may we live and happy may we be/Blest with content and from misfortunes free and with the initials S.G and H.G flanking a heart above moulded beading and beneath a band of waved line ornament and stylised flower and foliage-sprays, with shaped and dentil rim, the underside to the base inscribed Decre 24th/1809 (some chipping and slight damage to rim), 1809, perhaps Chesterfield
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A DERBYSHIRE STONEWARE DATED LOVING-CUP with reeded strap handles, the thistle-shaped body stamped and rouletted with stylised flower-sprays, the flared neck inscribed Long may we live and happy may we be/Blest with content and from misfortunes free and with the initials S.G and H.G flanking a heart above moulded beading and beneath a band of waved line ornament and stylised flower and foliage-sprays, with shaped and dentil rim, the underside to the base inscribed Decre 24th/1809 (some chipping and slight damage to rim), 1809, perhaps Chesterfield
27.5cm. high
Lot Essay
Cf. Adrian Oswald, R.J.C. Hildyard & R.G. Hughes, English Brown Stoneware 1670-1900, p. 154, pls. 119 and 120