Sale 1793
New York
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23 January 2007
Price realised
USD 3,120
Estimate
A LARGE BARREL-SHAPED ARMORIAL MUG CIRCA 1775 In the front the arms of Ramsay impaling Knight in colored enamels and gilt and trailing flowering vine, the sides with scattered floral sprigs and clusters and tasselled floral festoons above, borders of tiny molded bosses and gilt, iron-red and grisaille, interlaced strap handle with molded, enamelled berry sprig terminals 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high
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D.S. Howard illustrates another mug, from a private collection, and notes mugs that were in the Henry Farnham Burke sale, 1913, and the Frederick Crisp sale, 1923 (op. cit., vol. I, p. 638.)
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