Description:
English delft baluster-shaped mug decorated in blue with a chinoiserie landscape within a reserve or cartouche with dwellings, tall mountains, and trees. Mugs served all types of alcoholic beverages and were prone to rough use and breakage. Given the fragility of delftware, few mugs survive. The applied strap handle with a curling terminus is painted with c-scrolls and flowers in a smeary manner. The mug has a slightly flared rim, incurving sides, and bulging base. This mug, with its Chinese-style decoration, might have been the kind sold by William Ellery, a china and glass merchant in Hartford, Connecticut, who advertised in the Connecticut Courant on April 13, 1773, "Delph bowls, large and small Muggs, Porringers, Chamber Pots, & c., & c." The base of mug has several paper labels: "F. H./ GARNER/ L436h" (a collector and author of books on English delftware); "Garry / Atkins (a London dealer in English ceramics); "103"; and "London, possibly Mortlake delftware Circa 1770, minor rim chips restored/ 00/352". The mug is in good condition with some rim chips restored, some blue smudge marks by the pot-painter's hand at base of handle, and some glaze pits at top of mug rim.
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