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Mug — CRC# 1476
- Description
- A Plymouth baluster-shaped mug, with reeded loop handle, painted in colourful enamels with exotic birds in a landscape under a gilt chain band, c1770
- Service
- Mons. Soqui
- Date
- 1770-73
- Size
- 10.3cm diameter at rim, 17cm high
- Condition
- Chip to footrim
- Mark
- No mark
- Mark Group
- No mark
- Decorator
- No mark
- Maker
- Cookworthy
- CRC#
- 1476
- Type
- Mug
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Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance
H0216 · 1912
Mugs with Michel Soquet's exotic birds - from the Trapnell collection
Source: The Alfred Trapnell Catalogue of Bristol and Plymouth Porcelain - Deluxe Edition Plates
H0506 · 1912
A painting by Priscilla Fry of a mug decorated by Mons. Soqui
Source: Owen's Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol bound with 185 extra illustrations
H0436 · 1915
A Plymouth mug with exotic birds, from Priscilla Fry's Illustrations
H0430 · 1928
Mugs and vases decorated by Mons. Soqui, from Frank Hurlbutt's Bristol Porcelain
Source: Bristol Porcelain
H0460 · 1946
Coffee pot, decorated by Mons. Soqui, from Stephen Simpson's collection, illustrated in Mackenna's Cookworthy
H0461 · 1946
Reverse side of Stephen Simpson's coffee pot
H0444 · 1975
A Plymouth mug decorated by Mons. Soqui from F. Severne Mackenna's collection
Source: The FS Mackenna Collection of English Porcelain vol 3 Plymouth & Bristol
H0637 · 2007
Another Mug at Bonhams, June 2007
H0636 · 2009
Mug at Bonhams, Sept 2009
H0639 · 2017
Three more mugs at Bonhams, May 2017
H0606 · 2021
A mug selling at Doyle in NYC, 2021
H0290 · 2024
A mug painted by Mons Soqui from the Creed collection
Source: The Creed Collection of Plymouth & Bristol Porcelain (part II)
H0294 · 2024
A baluster shape mug with distinctive exotic birds, from the Creed collection
Source: The Creed Collection of Plymouth & Bristol Porcelain (part II)
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