English pottery Porter’s mug, ‘Ladies picking fruit’ c.1820

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Handsome large pottery ‘Porter’s Tankard’, printed & painted with a bold pattern known as ‘Ladies picking fruit’, including a lady on a sabre legged chair, the fruit pickers, and a ‘vase seller’ showing her wares to two potential customers, the whole on an intense cobalt blue ground, the interior with a wide floral border incorporating two ‘billing doves’.
Blue printed ‘Opaque China / C&Co., SP’ mark within cartouche,
Unknown Staffordshire pottery,
circa 1820

some minor staining to base
12cm high, 11.5cm wide at rim

This unusual pattern appears on jugs on this period, and has been titled ‘Ladies picking fruit’. These jugs bear the same mark, ‘Opaque China / C&Co., SP’ with several makers of the period being candidates for the C&Co., and ‘SP’ assumed to be .Staffordshire Potteries’. If the handle on this mug could be linked to a marked or identidied piece, it would be possible to pinpoint the mysterious ‘C&Co.’

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