1465
1465m
1465a
1465c
Mug — CRC# 1465
- Description
- A superb Plymouth large baluster shaped mug, with notched loop handle, brilliantly painted in Chinese famille rose palette with six elegant figures in a garden, flanked by vases of flowers on stands, beneath an iron red loop and dot band, circa 1770, no mark
- Service
- Oriental
- Date
- 1770-73
- Size
- 10.1cm diameter at rim, 15.4cm high
- Condition
- Perfect
- Mark
- No mark
- Mark Group
- No mark
- Decorator
- No mark
- Maker
- Cookworthy
- Labels
- ECC 1977 No. 197, Behar Collection No. 471, M&P Mannheim, Simon Spero Exhibition 2005 No. 24, Albert Amor
- Historic Provenance
- Sotheby's, London 21st November 1967, lot 175; Edward Behar Collection, sold Christie's, London 21st April 1980, lot 123; Christie's, London. 2nd June 1986, lot 270; Creed Collection Part 2, No. 49. Exhibited: English Ceramic Circle Loan Exhibition, 1977, number 197; Simon Spero, 2005 Exhibition, number 24.
- CRC#
- 1465
- Type
- Mug
1465b
Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance
H0305 · 2024
A superb mug with six Chinese figures, from Albert Amor's Creed catalogue
Source: The Creed Collection of Plymouth & Bristol Porcelain (part II)
H0343 · 2024
More photos of the mug from the Creed catalogue
Source: The Creed Collection of Plymouth & Bristol Porcelain (part II)
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