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D254. MUG 
Probably London 
Dated 1698 
 
 
H.: 5 318' (13.7 cm); Diam. (body): 6'(15.2 cm); 
Diam. (with handle): 7 3/4" (19.7 cm) 
 
 
BODY CLAY: Medium-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: White, slightly transpar 
ent and bluish in cast on interior and 
bottom. Overall, excluding bottom 
 
 
A mong the pieces most closely resembling this one in shape and decora- 
tive style is another circa 1700 mug with "ID" initials, somewhat
similar birds 
and flowers, and different borders., The vessel shape derives from metalwork,

and Chinese porcelain designs inspired related bird and flower motifs that
con- 
tinued in popularity into the next century (see no. D260). The scrollwork
border 
and the leaves seen here in the central band have parallels on a 1694 dated

plate,2 and the former also occurs on the rims of two teabowls excavated
at the 
John Custis home site in Williamsburg, Virginia. For drinking vessels with
bor- 
ders resembling that on the base of the mug, see numbers D246, D250, D261.

 
 
edge and uneven, narrow arc on bottom. 
SHAPE: Thrown, with turnings. Handle 
convex on interior, slightly concave on 
 
 
exterior, with curled lower terminal. Flat 
 
 
inset bottom with flaring sides. 
DECORATION: Painted. Birds, rocks, 
and flowering plants. Inscribed 
"I HA/1698." Borders composed of scroll 
 
and trefoil band, single and triple 
rectangles, and horizontal lines. Handle 
bears wavy line and scrollwork. 
 
 
1. See Britton Bristol, no. 6.6, for an undated 
mug resembling this one in shape and decora- 
tive motifs. 
 
 
2. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 201. 
3. Austin, Delft, p. 122; Noel Hlume, Pottery and 
Porcelain, p. 15, fig. 10. 
 
 
Ex colt.: J. P Kossebaum. 
 
 
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