AN ENGLISH DELFT NAMED AND DATED BLUE AND WHITE MUG

1754, PROBABLY LONDON

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AN ENGLISH DELFT NAMED AND DATED BLUE AND WHITE MUG
1754, PROBABLY LONDON
Of baluster form, painted with a lady with a walking cane and her hound before a cottage with a fenced garden, a church in the distance, in a continuous landscape, the grooved scroll handle painted with trailing flowers, the spreading foot with a band of scrolls, the underside named Dame Well's above the date 1754
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 6 June 1990, lot 234.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D267.

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Lot Essay

For two baluster mugs painted continuously with landscapes and dated respectively 1758, 1762 in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a third, dated 1763 and in the British Museum, see Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, nos. 841, 842 and 847.

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