Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2267Location: BostonDate / Time: February 20, 2005 11:00AM
Description:
Paint Decorated Tinware Mug, possibly Berlin, Connecticut, early 19th century, cylindrical form with strap handle, ornamented with red fruit and yellow leaflets on an asphaltum ground, ht. 4 7/8 in.
Literature: This mug is similar in decoration to those identified as painted in Berlin, Connecticut, in the book American Painted Tinware: A Guide to Its Identification, Vol. 1., by Gina Martin and Lois Tucker, American Historical Society of Early American Decoration Inc., New York, p. 34.
Estimate $400-600