Sold for:
$1,230
$1,230
Creamware Ale Mug, England, dated 1777, probably Yorkshire, cylindrical shape underglaze blue decorated with an oriental landscape with pagoda to one side, another with a western-style man standing and gesturing towards a verse "It is an honour for a man to cease from strife but Every fool will be meddleing 1777," ht. 4 in. Provenance: From the Troy Chappell Collection; Jellinek & Sampson. Literature: Illustrated in Ceramics in America-2001 , The Chipstone Foundation, p. 138, figs. 4 and 5.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-07-15
