An early Liverpool creamware mug c.1790-93

An early Liverpool creamware mug c.1790-93, printed and coloured with 'An East View of Liverpool Light House and Signals on Bidston Hill', the tower beside 56 coloured and numbered flags, all detailed beneath, 13cm.

Examples of this print post-1793 usually have Flag 40 listed as 'Enemies' and have at least 58 flags, while a jug dated 1790 had only 52 flags listed.

Provenance: purchased at Phillips, Oxford, 22nd May 1997, lot 110.