Pearlware Quart Mug

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Pearlware Quart Mug, Britain, c. 1800, banded in black, rust, and blue in a repeat pattern leaving only the foot in white, with an engine-turned series of vertical diamonds cut through the slip in small oval dots, the extruded handle with well-delineated foliate terminals, ht. 5 7/8 in. Provenance: Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Blum, Lisbon, Connecticut. Literature: Kitchen Ceramics, Slesin, Rozenstroich & Cliff, Abbeville Press, 1997. Exhibitions: Mocha Mania, The Dewitt Wallace Gallery, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, 1993-94; Dipped, Slipped, Turned & Wormed, The Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1995.
Estimate $1,250-1,500

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