Staffordshire Blue and White pearlware quart porter tankard 'Two Temple' pattern c1795

A very handsome and elegant porter tankard with ‘entasis’ (slight curvature at top of tankard, taken from classical Greek architecture). Fine scroll handle. Pooling of blue glaze on bottom rim. Insect pattern rim. Early piece c1795

Ex Maisels collection No. 278

Dimensions: 12cm diameter at rim x 13.7cm high
Weight: 450gm

Condition: A flake missing from the inside rim has been colour touched up (see photographs). No cracks. Some chips to bottom rim (one glazed suggesting they occurred in manufacture). FB324