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AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME INITIALED AND DATED GORGE
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AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME INITIALED AND DATED GORGE

DATED 1686, PROBABLY LONDON

Fermé24 January 2020

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AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME INITIALED AND DATED GORGE
DATED 1686, PROBABLY LONDON
The mug painted with the initials A.N./1686, within an entwined wreath flanked by birds, one with a berried branch and one eating seeds off the ground, below an ochre and blue lined rim
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) tall

Note du spécialiste


Mugs such as this, known as 'gorges' for the their narrow necks, were popular in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, deriving their form from larger imported 15th century German stoneware ale mugs.

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