D260. MUG 
Bristol or London 
1715-1730 
 
 
H.: 6 3/4" (17.1 cm); 
Diam, (body): 4 1/2" (11.4 cm); 
Diam. (with handle): 6 5/8" (16.8 cm) 
 
 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained buff. 
TIN GLAZE: White with a few small 
poorly adhered patches. Overall, 
 
 
excluding bottom edge. 
SHAPE: Thrown. Handle nearly flat on 
interior, slightly concave on exterior, 
with slightly curled lower terminal. 
Shallowly concave bottom with flat 
edge. 
 
 
DECORATION: Painted. Birds, rocks, 
and flowering plants. Borders 
composed of scrolled band, band of 
foliate motifs, and horizontal lines. 
Handle bears scrollwork. Bottom 
depicts figure with hat and scarf in 
basket(?) in landscape. 
 
 
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Ex coll.,j P Kosseboum. 
 
 
Sn its ornament this mug relates to a 1698 dated example also in this collec-

tion (no. D254); both mugs look to Chinese porcelain as a design source.
The 
mug shown here, however, is likely to be somewhat later in date, based on
its 
profile and the proportions of the decorative base band in relation to the
rest 
of the ornament., Similarly inspired floral and bird motifs are found on
a 1716 
dated plate, and fragments bearing related patterns have been unearthed in

Bristol and London? A 1728 mug displays somewhat similar but more elegantly

painted scrolls on its handle.' The peculiar figure on the bottom of the
mug 
shown here may refer to some popular story or specific event,4 and, as it
would 
have been visible to the drinker's companions rather than to the drinker,
may 
have had a double meaning. 
 
 
1. For relevant 1720 1728 dated mugs, see Lipski 
and Archer, Dated Delftware, nos. 804, 810, 812. 
2. Archer, V&A, no. B.109. 
3. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 813. 
4. For a somewhat similar figure on tiles depict- 
ing "Saint Paul lin a basketl escaping tfrom 
Damascus" (Acts 9:24), see Home, Tiles, nos. 
654-656. 
 
 
286 The Longridge Collection 
 
 
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