Lot Essay
Howard op.cit. has suggested that the beast on the front of this bottle is a 'prancing fox.' It has also been described as a rampant dog or possibly a griffin, though no firm identification can be made.
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CIRCA 1640, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK
Details
A LONDON DELFT INSCRIBED AND INITIALED BLUE AND WHITE WINE-BOTTLE
CIRCA 1640, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK
With loop handle, painted with a rampant beast within a laurel-wreath below the initials D/D.A., flanked by the inscription WHEN.THIS.YOV.SE / REMEMBER.ME
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high
CIRCA 1640, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK
With loop handle, painted with a rampant beast within a laurel-wreath below the initials D/D.A., flanked by the inscription WHEN.THIS.YOV.SE / REMEMBER.ME
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) high
Provenance
J.H. Taylor Collection; Sotheby's, London, 13 November 1930, lot 278.
G. E. Howard Collection; Sotheby's, London, 24 July 1956, lot 59.
Thomas George Burn, The Rous Lench Court Collection; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1986, lot 16.
G. E. Howard Collection; Sotheby's, London, 24 July 1956, lot 59.
Thomas George Burn, The Rous Lench Court Collection; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1986, lot 16.
Literature
G. E. Howard, Early English Drug Jars, London, 1931, pl. 21, no. 76.
L. B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, vol. 2, London, 2000, p. 246, no. D220.
L. B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, vol. 2, London, 2000, p. 246, no. D220.
Exhibited
London, Vintners' Hall, Loan Exhibition of Drinking Vessels, June 1933.
Brought to you by
Sallie Glover
Howard op.cit. has suggested that the beast on the front of this bottle is a 'prancing fox.' It has also been described as a rampant dog or possibly a griffin, though no firm identification can be made.