CIRCA 1635, SOUTHWARK, PICKLEHERRING QUAY OR MONTAGUE CLOSE

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A LONDON DELFT ARMORIAL BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR SALT
CIRCA 1635, SOUTHWARK, PICKLEHERRING QUAY OR MONTAGUE CLOSE
The long sides molded with winged masks, each end with the arms of the City of London, the interior with a simple leaf spray within concentric lines and cell-pattern border, with paw feet below leaves to each corner
4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) long

Provenance

With Jonathan Horne, London, 1999.

Literature

J. Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, London, 1999, Part XIX, no. 552.
L. B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, vol. 2, Delftware, London, 2000, p. 231, no. D207.

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Lot Essay

Leslie Grigsby notes that this is one of six known examples of this form in English delftware, and the only in blue and white. Two similar examples in polychrome can be found in the collections of the British Museum (no. 1887,0307,E.9) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (no. C.12-1958), discussed further in M. Archer, Delftware: The Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, London, 1997, p. 325, no. G.1. An additional example in polychrome was sold at Christie's, London 14 October, 1985, lot 8.

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