1676, THE UNDERSIDE PAINTED WITH A WINGED INSECT

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A LONDON DELFT POLYCHROME DATED SALT
1676, THE UNDERSIDE PAINTED WITH A WINGED INSECT
Modelled as a seated youth with ochre hair, his facial features enirched in blue, wearing a loose striped coat open at the neck and holding a shaped-square tray painted with spiders and insects at the corners, the centre with a circular depression with an insect above the date 1676 with a flourish below, seated on a waisted fluted stool and wearing manganese shoes
7 7/8 in. (19.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous; Sotheby's, London, 13 March 1962, lot 58.
Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Christie's, London, 29 May 1990, lot 10.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D211.
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 349, col. pl. XI, no. 1539.

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Lot Essay

A similarly modelled but undated salt from the collection of Jean and Kenneth Chorley sold Christie's, New York, 25 January 1993, lot 16, now in the Longridge Collection and a blue and white example dated 1674 from the collection of the Hon. Simon Sainsbury, 'The Creation of an English Arcadia', Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, lot 132.

Michael Archer, Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997, pp. 325 & 326, no. G.2 and pl. 211, discusses a salt, in the museum collection (C.102-1950), with the addition of two candle holders behind the man's head. The author suggests that the model relates to a tin-glazed earthenware example from Flanders of late 16th or early 17th century date (Ibid. Fig. 42).

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