A rare Worcester small mug

Provenance:
English Private Collection 

A rare Worcester baluster shaped small mug, with notched loop handle, painted in coloured enamels with a bridge and numerous buildings in a river landscape, above a puce scroll band, the handle flanked by two bold purple monochrome sprays of flowers and leaves, 3 3/8" high, circa 1758, no mark

This distinctive style of decoration is more normally found on cabbage leaf moulded 'Dutch' jugs, and was traditionally ascribed to Rogers. However, the style of painted is not sufficiently close to the celebrated mug in the British Museum, signed and dated 'I Rogers 1757' to support this attribution

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