Creamware Half-pint Mug

Description:

Creamware Half-pint Mug, England, c. 1780, manganese-glazed reeded bands at the rim and foot framing a ground of rust-colored slip dotted with daubed black slip and with a sprigged ornamented arch over an oval portrait bust with dark brown slip details, and applied molded strap handle, (minor imperfections),ht. 3 3/4 in.
Estimate $600-800

Very small apparently in-the-making rim chip with associated hairline crack, the base with circular and spiderweb hairlines.


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