1467
1467m
1467a
1467c
Mug — CRC# 1467
- Description
- A Plymouth baluster shaped mug, with notched loop handle, painted in sepia with the crest of Sir John Nicholls, and monogram 'JN' in dry blue enamel, within an elaborate 'C' scroll and leaf cartouche, flanked by coloured sprays of flowers and leaves, beneath a gilt pendant flower head and scroll band, circa 1770, painted tin mark in puce
- Service
- Armorial and initials
- Date
- 1768-70
- Size
- 8.8cm diameter at rim, 14cm high
- Condition
- Perfect
- Mark
- Puce tin mark
- Mark Group
- Tin
- Decorator
- No mark
- Maker
- Cookworthy
- Labels
- "Illustrated on Fig. 55 Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain F. Severne Mackenna M.A., F.S.A. SCOT.; Frank Arnold Collection E459; Albert Amor
- Historic Provenance
- Trapnell collection No. 610; Dr Lidiard Wilson Collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 20th May 1938, lot 76; Sotheby's, London, 28th January 1964, lot 398; Frank Arnold Collection, number E459; With Simon Spero, 2005; Creed Collection Part 1 No. 1. Illustrated; F S Mackenna, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, figure 55
- CRC#
- 1467
- Type
- Mug
1467b
Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance
H0218 · 1912
The Nicholls mug in the Trapnell collection
Source: The Alfred Trapnell Catalogue of Bristol and Plymouth Porcelain - Deluxe Edition Plates
H0269 · 1912
The Nicholls mug description from the Trapnell collection
Source: The Alfred Trapnell Catalogue of Bristol and Plymouth Porcelain - Deluxe Edition Plates
H0219 · 1946
Also featured by Mackenna in the Frank Arnold collection
H0254 · 2024
The Nicholls mug in Albert Amor's Creed catalogue
Source: The Creed Collection of Plymouth & Bristol Porcelain (part II)
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