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Mug

Dateca. 1690

OriginEngland, London

MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft / delftware/ bleu persan)

DimensionsH: 3"; D: 3 1/8"; OW: 3 7/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1953-1029

DescriptionMug: short footring supports the bulbous-body that rises to a short cylindrical neck; single loop handle. The piece covered allover in a deep cobalt-blue tin-glaze and painted in white on the blue ground with a chinoiserie scene in the bleu persan or blew de Nevers style mimicking late Ming porcelain.Label TextHollow ware and dishes of various types with a deep-blue-ground glaze decorated in white have been excavated at the Norfolk House pottery site in Lambeth, England. A portion of a potting pot was found with kiln furniture at a dump at Mark Brown's Wharf. This refuse could have come from the Norfolk House pottery, but the variety within the ware suggests that more than one London-area pottery was producing it. Fragments of a blue-ground potting pot with the squatting Chinese pattern have been excavated in Williamsburg at the Chiswell-Bucktrout House (2HB.I099) and at the Hubbard site (2PB.I054).Inscription(s)NoneMark(s)NoneProvenanceDavid Stockwell, Inc. , Philadelphia