Lot Details
Lot 127
Plymouth Porcelain Small Mug
Circa 1768-70, iron-red alchemical tin mark, the painting attributed to `Monsieur Soqui'
Of bell-shape with loop handle, enameled in colors with two `fancy' birds strutting in a landscape flanked by trees, beneath a chocolate line rim.
Height 3 3/4 inches.
Provenance:
Dr. Charles A. Hepburn Collection.
Christie's, London, 13 November 1972, lot 68.
Michel Socquet or Soquet, (a.k.a. 'Monsieur Soqui'), was a French painter, working in England, ca. 1764-72. The workman records at the Sèvres Manufactory list him as a painter in 1753; 1756-1764; 1773-1774.
See Donald C. Pierce, English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Locke Collection, Atlanta: High Museum of Art, p. 218, no. 210 for a mug with similar bird painting, sometimes attributed to 'Monsieur Soqui', a French artist supposedly employed by William Cookworthy, and sometimes attributed to a London decorator. For a discussion on this style of painting and an illustration of a similar mug, see F. Severne Mackenna, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, pl. 33, fig. 53, and p. 91.
Also see Gervaise Jackson-Stops, The Treasure Houses of Great Britain, p. 485, no. 422 for another mug with similar decoration in the Morely Collection at Saltram House, Devon.
C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
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