Loving cup, double scroll handles, dark green slip ground with sgraffito decoration.
Base of cup inscribed with:
CAROLINE O BATEMAN
BENTHALL
JUNE 7 1897
Is 7th June 1897 a significant date, or merely the day on which Caroline decorated the cup?
Mark: Impressed SALOPIAN mark
Height: 140mm / 5.5in
Date: 1897
Provenance: Descendants of the Howard family; Lawrences, Crewkerne, Somerset (5 July 2018);
Nock Deighton, Bridgnorth, Shropshire (17 Oct 2018); Private collection, UK