Fergus Gambon
Director
Lot 268
A Flight and Barr mug by John Pennington, circa 1795
15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£2,000 - £2,500
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Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
A Flight and Barr mug by John Pennington, circa 1795
Of cylindrical form with a distinctive double-scrolled handle picked out in gold, painted in sepia monochrome by John Pennington with a mother feeding her two children, a lattice window in the background, titled 'Breakfast' on the underside, an oak leaf and acorn border gilded below the rim, 13.5cm high, 'Flight and Barr Worr' in puce script below a crown (minute patches of wear to gilded rim)
Footnotes
A pair of closely related mugs also by John Pennington is illustrated by Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain (1978), p.41, pl.25. They share the same high quality figural painting which occurs on only a small number of recorded examples, including the mug illustrated by John Sandon, The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, p.258. A comparison with Pennington's work on the Hope Service suggests a greater degree of care was taken over mugs of this group, comparable with the painting of the Corporation of Worcester punchbowls with portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte, illustrated by Henry Sandon, op cit, p.32, pl.18. Another related mug was sold by Bonhams 1 May 2013, lot 127.