PAIR OF TURNER BLACK BASALT SATYR HEAD MUGS

PAIR OF TURNER BLACK BASALT SATYR HEAD MUGS circa 1800, impressed Turner, each molded as a bearded grinning male head, the rim with fruiting grapevine, the flaring foot with a band of beaded chain, the interior glazed, h: 4 1/8 in. (2) h:4.15 in.

Provenance: Sandy Adams Collection (label) - to one.
Elizabeth C. Chellis Collection.
Skinner, Boston, 11 July 2009, sale 2465, lot 195.
Jeffrey Milkins Collection, no. 553.

Catalogue Note:
For a similar example, see Colonel Maurice H. Grant, â Makers of Black Basaltâ , p. 247, pl. LXII.2. For a similar buff-earthenware example, see the Auckland Museum, accession no. 1932.233.