A CREAMWARE PRINTED MUG

A CREAMWARE PRINTED MUG

PROBABLY HERCULANEUM, C.1775

decorated with three men eating at a table beneath a tree, one reading a newspaper, with two dogs at their feet, together with a creamware mug printed and painted with a satirical print, after Dawson, titled 'A race between John Bull and Boney' and inscribed 'Jane Nicholson 1835' (2)

14.8cm high (max)

Provenance

Creamware mug:

G W Capell collection, sold at Sotheby's 16 February 1965, lot 3.

Paper label for the E. Norman Stretton Collection, no. C135, lot 271 in the Philips' sale of his collection in 2001.

Literature

David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, p.85, pl.214 for this mug.