AN ENGLISH BROWN STONEWARE TANKARD, WITH SILVER MOUNT CIRCA 1740 |

probably London, of cylindrical form set with a grooved strap handle, sprigged with a rectangular panel molded with a "Midnight Modern Conversation" flanked on either side by two trees, above a continuous hunt scene, the mount with script maker’s mark, possibly LH.

Jonathan Horne, London, October, 1992
Vogel Collection no. 569

The handle has been cleanly broken and re-stuck at the two terminals, with traces of glue residue partially visible on lower terminal. Scattered firing cracks.
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The combined characteristics of a clockwise sprigged hunt scene and punch party scene place this tankard in the group identified as 'Factory C', as categorized by Adrian Oswald et al., English Brown Stoneware 1670-1900, London, 1982, appendix II, where the authors suggest a likely attribution of London but note that some similar sprigged motifs appear on mugs of Bristol manufacture.