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A Vauxhall brown saltglazed stoneware silver-mounted inscribed and dated tankard
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A Vauxhall brown saltglazed stoneware silver-mounted inscribed and dated tankard

1724, THE SILVER MOUNT WITH INDISTINCT HALLMARK

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A Vauxhall brown saltglazed stoneware silver-mounted inscribed and dated tankard
1724, the silver mount with indistinct hallmark
Of cylindrical form, with ribbed strap handle, applied with an arched escutcheon containing a double half-length portrait of King George I and his Queen flanking a fleur-de-lys and with the incised inscription Tho Turner with the date 1724 below, flanked by stylised trees and flowerheads, the lower part with a clockwise stag-hunt with eight hounds and a huntsman holding a musket and a horn between reeded bands, the upper rim mounted in silver, the lower edge engraved with fronds and pierced with hearts inscribed God Preserve The Royal Family Amen Thos Turner 4 = 18 = 0 (some minute chipping to footrim and slight loss to two applied reliefs of hands)
9 in. (23 cm.) high overall
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Lot Essay

For a similarly inscribed mug, dated 1724, in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (no. 328024), see Robin Hildyard, Exhibition Catalogue Browne Muggs English Brown Stoneware, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, p. 57, no. 123. For a detailed discussion of dated hunting mugs, see W.W. Hamilton Foyn, 'Dated London Brown Saltglazed Hunting Mugs 1713-75' ECC Transactions, Vol. 17, pt. 2 (2000), pp. 253-274.

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