Lot # 1
Annual Summer Americana Auction, August 1 & 3, 2008
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RARE BRITISH PEARLWARE MOCHAWARE PRESENTATION CUP, BRISTOL, CIRCA 1819.
Sold: $8,775.00 ($7,500)
Banded in dark brown, inscribed on the front in black "W. ROGERS Boiler Maker Moorfields BRISTOL," within swags and pendants of slate blue, dark brown and white cat's eyes beneath alternating diamond and triangular-shaped groups of matching cat's eyes on a brown ground, within rouletted dark brown bands and groups of brown and white dots on a slate blue ground, applied handles. Height 7 ¼ inches.
Provenance:
Jonathan Rickard Collection, Deep River, Connecticut.
Literature:
For an illustration and discussion regarding this cup, made to commemorate the opening of William Rogers's boiler manufactory in Moorfields, Bristol, 1819, see Jonathan Rickard, "Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1939," p. 70-71, fig. 101.
Provenance:
Jonathan Rickard Collection, Deep River, Connecticut.
Literature:
For an illustration and discussion regarding this cup, made to commemorate the opening of William Rogers's boiler manufactory in Moorfields, Bristol, 1819, see Jonathan Rickard, "Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1939," p. 70-71, fig. 101.
