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Offered in support of Art Fund
Lot 140

A fine and rare English delftware gorge or mug, circa 1620-30

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

Sold for £7,680 inc. premium

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A fine and rare English delftware gorge or mug, circa 1620-30

London or possibly Norwich, with a globular body and cylindrical neck, the loop handle flat on the inside, on a small turned foot, painted in dark blue with two large inverted oak leaves flanking a heart-shaped panel on the front, the neck with a row of dots between concentric lines, 12.2cm high

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Provenance
Professor F H Garner Collection, Sotheby's, 2 March 1965, lot 175
W W Winkworth, purchased at the above sale
With Errol Manners, June 1989
Graham Slater Collection

A Museum of London excavation in Norwich found a near-complete mug of similar shape with identical decoration. Graham Slater discussed this significant find with Michael Archer who agreed with a London attribution for Professor Garner's mug. Curiously, two other vessels- a bottle and a barrel-shaped mug- with the same distinctive pattern were recovered from the rear of an apothecary shop in London Street in Norwich, published in East Anglian Archaeology Report no.13, 1981, figs. 1501 and 1512. While delftware was first made in England by potters who settled in Norwich, they had moved to London by the time this mug was made early in the 17th century.

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