CIRCA 1720, PROBABLY BRISTOL

Details

AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME CYLINDRICAL MUG
CIRCA 1720, PROBABLY BRISTOL
Painted in blue, red and green with a chinoiserie landscape below a band of flowers, with a domed foot decorated with brick pattern
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) high

Provenance

John Philip Kassebaum; Sotheby's, London, 1 October 1991, lot 79.

Literature

D261. The Longridge Catalogue

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Lot Essay

For a near identical mug see Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997, p. 240, pl. 173, cat. no. C.17.

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