A Longton Hall mug, circa 1755-57A Longton Hall mug, circa 1755-57The angular scrolled handle with a moulded thumbrest, painted with the 'Goose' or 'Two Geese' pattern, two red birds standing by rockwork and issuing colourful flowering peony, 9.4cm highProvenanceSimon Spero exhibition, 1994, no.9Simon Spero exhibition, Eight Days in June, 2004, p.36Barbara Leake Collection, Bonhams, 12 March 2008, lot 52Sylvia and Alan Low CollectionA similar mug is illustrated by Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain (1957), fig.60a. A teabowl and saucer with a variation of this pattern with red and yellow birds from the Billie Pain Collection was sold by Bonhams on 26 November 2003, lot 84.