Loving cup, double scroll handles, blue slip ground with sgraffito decoration.
Back of cup inscribed with:
CAROLINE O BATEMAN
FECIT
IVLY IX 1897
Is 9th July 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