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Lot 125

A Lowestoft mug, circa 1761-62

30 June 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Lowestoft mug, circa 1761-62

Of cylindrical form with a spreading foot and a scrolled handle, painted in blue with a Chinese lady seated beside a fence and holding a parasol, her boy attendant to one side of the handle, a fisherman in a sampan to the other, a border of diaper and floral panels inside the rim, 14.8cm high, indistinct painter's numeral inside footrim (section restuck, chip to foot)

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Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), pl 5, p 20. Sold in these rooms on 7 December 1994, lot 434. An identical mug was excavated by the Museum of London at the site of the King's Arms, Uxbridge, ref: UX 85 VI : 193

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