A LONDON BROWN STONEWARE DATED LARGE TANKARD 1721 |

Vauxhall, of cylindrical form set with a grooved strap handle, sprigged with a bust-length portrait of Queen Anne flanked by a church and hunting scenes beneath the script inscription around the rim This is to the Pious memory of Queen Ann Drink all up and fill it again 1721.

Louis Gautier, London, no. 7865, bearing label
Property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Revelstoke, Puttick and Simpson, London, November 20, 1934, lot 441
Sotheby's, London, April 28, 1981, lot 31
Tait Collection
Jonathan Horne, London, May, 1981
Vogel Collection no. 352

Adrian Oswald et al., English Brown Stoneware 1670-1900, London, 1982, listed on p. 244.

Minor rim chips. A shallow chip to footrim and associated faint hairline crack to underside of base.
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