A LONDON BROWN STONEWARE DATED LARGE TANKARD 1727 |

of cylindrical form with grooved strap handle, the upper part with a brown-dipped glaze, sprigged with a rectangular panel molded with a rare coaching scene flanked by buildings and trees above an anti-clockwise stag hunting scene highlighted in dark-brown, incised beneath the rim Wm Venden/ 1727.

Bonham's London, December 8, 2004, lot 222
Jonathan Horne, London, December, 2004
Vogel Collection no. 749

In good condition with only some minor small rim chips.
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Wynn Hamilton-Foyn in his paper, 'Dated Hunting Mugs', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, 2000, Vol. 17, part 2, p. 270, discusses this rare form of decoration and lists two further tankards sprigged with coaching scenes, also dated 1727, with the inscriptions 'N.S' (or NJ), and 'James Presson' respectively. A Vauxhall mug dated 1727, incised with the name 'Thomas Johnson', from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, formerly in the Collection of Louis Solon, was sold at Sotheby's, New York, October 20, 1993, lot 82. As the sprigged hunting decoration on the present mug is in an anti-clockwise decoration the tankard falls into a group labeled 'Factory B', which are considered almost certainly to be London, and possibly Fulham.