A good and rare Vauxhall mug, c.1755, the cylindrical form rising from a flared foot, well painted

A good and rare Vauxhall mug, c.1755, the cylindrical form rising from a flared foot, well painted in Kakiemon enamels with a peacock perched on flowering prunus branches and bamboo, beside a further peacock perched on holey rockwork, brown line rim, 12.5cm.

Provenance: the Henry Lawrence Collection. Acquired from Winifred Williams in 1983. At Sotheby's in 1975.

Illustrated: Deborah Stratton, Mugs and Tankards, p.114. Also, ECC Transactions. Vol. 13, Part 3, Bernard Watney - 'The Vauxhall China Works 1751-1764', pl.205.

Exhibited: The British Museum, Porcelain for Palaces, 1990, no.335, and illustrated in the catalogue of the same.

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE.