A pearlware 'Catch Singers' mug c.1780

A pearlware 'Catch Singers' mug c.1780, printed and coloured with four singers around a tea table, above three lines of the score of 'A Bumper of Good Liquor', signed in the print 'John Aynsley, Lane End', 12cm.

The Gentleman's and Nobleman's Catch Club was formed in London in 1761 and counted seven Royal Dukes, three of them future Kings, among its members. The members illustrated here appear to include Viscount Sackville, Lord Richard Howe, and General Sir William Howe.