150 OLD WEST SURREY 



In the picture of six mugs, three of them, namely, 

 Nos. 1, 3, and 5 are of the same ware. All these kinds 

 were formerly in common use in the cottages, farms, and 

 public-houses. They are all from the northern potteries. 

 Their pretty colouring, never garish or inharmonious, gave 

 them a distinctly ornamental value on the kitchen dresser. 



The dipped- ware mug to the left is of the usual warm 

 buff yellow. On this is a white band with green trees, 

 bordered with a brown line at top and bottom. The next 

 is a white pint-mug striped and banded with warm brown 

 black. The third mug has a white ground and a broad 

 pale brown band with black trees. Above this is a half-inch 

 band of blue, and there are two pairs of black rings above and 

 below. The fourth is a white pint-mug, closely banded 

 with black and blue. No. 5 is a pint-mug, beautifully 

 coloured. The main middle space is a pale sage green Avith 

 faint trees of a darker tint of the same, and it has a blue 

 band in excellent harmony above and below. The last mug 

 is buff yellow, with white and blue stripes. 



In the picture of mugs and jugs, the covered basin and 

 the one inverted are of the same pretty dipped ware ; buff 

 with cream- white band, decorated with blue ornament; the 

 small mus; standing on the inverted larger one is of the 

 Staffordshire ' sponge ' ware. Of the three on the box the 

 left-hand little jug is blue and white ; the middle one is 

 ribbed and of a beautiful rich green colour. The right- 

 hand jug I cannot account for. It has the appearance of 

 considerable age ; the surface is bluntly reeded and the 

 colour is whitish green of the celadon class, with a high 

 glaze. 



There was a quantity of painted ware, such as the jug 

 on the right, known as the Dutch shape ; some of the painting 



