Bonhams 1793 : A West Pans mug, circa 1764-70

Of cylindrical form with a double scroll handle, painted in colours with a fanciful bird perched on a fence, beside flowers including a variegated tulip issuing from rockwork, flanked by two loose bouquets of flowers amongst scattered leaves, below a brown line rim, the handle painted with brown scrollwork, 10.7cm high (minor rim nicks probably caused during manufacture)

Sold for £840 inc. premium

Footnotes

Provenance: The Godden Reference Collection, purchased from Klaber and Klaber in 1976 (for £265). Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Eighteenth-century English Porcelain (1985), fig. 47, pls. 150-151 and colour pl. 16. A West Pans mug with the same decoration was sold in these rooms in The Frank Wheeldon Collection, 23 January 2008, lot 17.

Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics

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