A LONDON DELFT POLYCHROME FIGURAL SALT

CIRCA 1655-80

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A LONDON DELFT POLYCHROME FIGURAL SALT
CIRCA 1655-80
Modeled as a sulking youth holding a shaped-oval basin painted with lozenge and scroll ornament, seated on a waisted fluted stool and wearing shoes with rosette buckles
7 ¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Frances L. Dickson.
Vivian J. Scheidemantel.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 July 1963, lot 78 (to Tilley & Co. on behalf of Kenneth Chorley).
Jean and Kenneth Chorley; Christie's, New York, 25 January 1993, lot 16.

Literature

L. B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, vol. 2, London, 2000, pp. 236-237, no. D212.

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Lot Essay

Based on an earlier Flemish figure, only four figures from this mold are known to exist. These include the example formerly in the Rous Lench Collection, sold Christie's, London, 29 May 1990, lot 10; the example from the Glaisher collection now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; and the polychrome example at the Victoria & Albert Museum (museum no. C.102-1950). See M. Archer, Delftware, the Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, Norwich, 1997, pp. 325-6, no. G.2 for the example at the V & A for a further discussion of the model.

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