A Worcester large mug, circa 1757-58A Worcester large mug, circa 1757-58Of bell shape with a grooved strap handle, painted in purple monochrome with classical ruins, a section of an elaborate classical amphitheatre, fragments of columns in the foreground, a further vignette with foliage sprouting from ruins on the reverse, 14.5cm highProvenanceNina Weil Collection, Simon Spero 1989 Exhibition, catalogue no.34Zorensky Collection, Bonhams, 23 February 2005, lot 30Crane Collection, Bonhams, 31 March 2010, lot 182Sylvia and Alan Low CollectionIllustrated by Sandon and Spero, The Zorensky Collection (1996), p.112, no.73. A very similar example is illustrated by R L Hobson, Worcester Porcelain (1910), pl.54. A number of smaller mugs in the same style are recorded and some of these purple monochrome landscapes appear to have transfer printed sources after paintings by Panini. A simplified version of the primary subject on this mug occurs on a printed Worcester creamjug, see Joseph Handley, 18th Century English Transfer-Printed Porcelain and Enamels (1991), p.141, fig.5.1. The same source was used for a purple monochrome armorial mug illustrated by Henry Sandon, Worcester Porcelain (1969), pl.113.