AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE MUG CIRCA 1680-90 |

probably London, of bulbous form painted around the exterior with a seated Chinoiserie figure in a continuous landscape beneath a zig-zag and double dot border around the cylindrical neck.

Robert Hall Warren Collection, no. 13, bearing label
Phillips, London, June 11, 1986, lot 85
Collection of John Philip Kassebaum, bearing label, sold, Sotheby's, London, October 1, 1991, lot 19
Jonathan Horne, London, October, 1991
Vogel Collection no. 553

There are five shallow chips to the rim and a chip to the footrim. There is a 3cm. long hairline crack to the rim.
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See Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, London, 2000, Vol. 2, pp. 275-276, D249-D251 for mugs decorated in this manner. The present mug is similar in pattern and glaze color to the smaller example illustrated (D251), also formerly in the Kassebaum Collection, which the author compares to a large mug dated 1682, illustrated by Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 1967, p. 50, no. 119; and a puzzle cup dated 1684, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, attributed to London on the basis of the inscribed initials 'C' over 'T E', illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, London, 1997, p. 257, D.4.