AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE SMALL MUG CIRCA 1690-1700 |

the bulbous exterior painted in blue and outlined in manganese with a winged insect between trailing flower sprays beneath a lappet border around the cylindrical neck.

Jonathan Horne, London, March, 1990
Vogel Collection no. 521

Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part X, Cat. no. 252

There is a hairline crack at the rim, approximately 3.5 cm. long. There is a shallow rim chip and some glaze nibble chips.
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