A Plymouth mug

A Plymouth baluster shaped mug, with notched loop handle, painted in sepia with the crest of Sir John Nicholls, and monogram 'JN' in dry blue enamel, within an elaborate 'C' scroll and leaf cartouche, flanked by coloured sprays of flowers and leaves, beneath a gilt pendant flower head and scroll band, 5 1/2" high, circa 1770, painted tin mark in puce 

Provenance; Dr Lidiard Wilson Collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 20th May 1938, lot 76
                     Sotheby's, London, 28th January 1964, lot 398
                     Franklin Arnold Collection, number E459
                     With Simon Spero, 2005

Illustrated; F S Mackenna, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, figure 55

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