CIRCA 1700, PROBABLY ENGLISH, INCISED DOUBLE CROSSED LINE, CONTEMPORARY MOUNT WITH INDISTINCT MAKER'S MARK HH (?) POSSIBLY FOR HENRY HEBERT

Details

A DELFT SILVER-MOUNTED POLYCHROME MUG
CIRCA 1700, PROBABLY ENGLISH, INCISED DOUBLE CROSSED LINE, CONTEMPORARY MOUNT WITH INDISTINCT MAKER'S MARK HH (?) POSSIBLY FOR HENRY HEBERT
Painted with an Oriental lady seated by a pavilion in a fantastic landscape with rockwork, large flowers and flowering prunus branches, an exotic bird perched on the pavilion, another on a branch, above a border of horizontal double blue lines enclosing iron-red scrolls divided by triangular panels of geometric ornament, the handle with sprays of prunus, the upper rim with a silver mount edged with down-turned acanthus leaves (chipping and flaking to glaze of footrim and lower terminal of handle, possible damage beneath mount)
4 in. (10.1 cm.) high overall

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Although not typical, concave bases are not unknown on English mugs of the early 18th Century, and the decoration appears to have more in common with English Delft than Dutch, having some similarities to a rare group of English pieces with chinoiserie figures and pagodas. See the teapot-stand in the collection at Colonial Williamsburg illustrated by John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg (1994), p. 115, no. 121.

More from BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL CERAMICS

View All