A GOUGH HYNDE MUG

CIRCA 1720

Details

A GOUGH HYNDE MUG
CIRCA 1720
Decorated in iron-red, black and gilt with the large coat-of-arms of Gough impaling Hynde, all between two underglaze blue fret-work bands, the lower-body ribbed
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

Provenance

The Cecil Bullivant Collection; Phillips, London, 22 March 1988, lot 6.
The Coats Collection; Bonhams, London, 20 June 2006, lot 9.
An American private collection.

Literature

Exhibited and published in the catalogue by D.S. Howard, A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong, London, 1997, no. 113.

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Lot Essay

Captain Harry Gough (1681-1751) made numerous voyages to Canton, where he was known as "Amy Wang" or "the white-haired boy," eventually becoming a Director and then Chairman of the Company (1737-47). He married Elizabeth Hynde in 1719; together they commissioned four Chinese export dinner services (Howard, op. cit., p. 98) as well as a set of three George II armorial silver tea-caddies contained in a Chinese carved ivory case with silver handle, sold Christie's, London, 1 December 2005, lot 442, and visible in a 1741 portrait of the family by William Verelst.

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