AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME 'UNION' MUG

CIRCA 1707, LAMBETH OR BRISTOL

Details

AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME 'UNION' MUG
CIRCA 1707, LAMBETH OR BRISTOL
Painted in blue, green and iron-red with a broad band of trellis-pattern reserved with stars below the inscription union, within green bands and scroll chain ornament, the grooved scroll handle with blue dashes
5½ in. (14 cm.) high

Provenance

F. H. Garner.
John Philip Kassebaum; Sotheby's, London, 7 October 1992, lot 87.

Literature

F. H. Garner and Michael Archer, English Delftware, London, 1972, pl. 65A.
Peter Francis, Irish Delftware an Illustrated History, London, 2000, p. 9, no. 4.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D256.

Exhibited

London, Jonathan Horne, Irish Delftware Exhibition, 2000.

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Lot Essay

It is likely that the present mug was made to commemorate the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707.

For a cylindrical mug also decorated with this a star-and-lattice pattern and inscribed 'union', see Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 86-87, no. 6.1.

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