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Lot 119

An English delftware small mug, late 17th or early 18th century

15 April 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An English delftware small mug, late 17th or early 18th century

Of inward tapering cylindrical shape with a moulded line below the rim and slightly everted footrim, the thin loop handle with a turned up lower terminal, painted in dark blue outlined in black with formal foliage on a dotted ground, an irregular chain border at the rim, 8.8cm high

Footnotes

Provenance
Louis Lipski Collection, Sotheby's, 1 March 1983, lot 431
With Jonathan Horne, August 1984
Graham Slater Collection

This is an unusually small example of a form which is recorded with dates from the end of the 17th and early part of the 18th century. Related decoration is more usually seen on posset pots.

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