A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE MODEL OF A MAN'S SHOE
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A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE MODEL OF A MAN'S SHOE

1654, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK

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A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE MODEL OF A MAN'S SHOE
1654, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK
Of low high-heeled form, with a moulded ribbon beneath the tongue, squared pointed toe with stylised flowerhead of dots and the initials M.H/1654, the back of the shoe with a raised band extending down the heal flanked by two similar stylised flowerheads, edged with a blue band, the lower part and heel with a band of stitching
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) long
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D359.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, 155, June 1999, pp. 882-883, pl. 13.
Jonathan Horne, A Collection of English Pottery, London, 1992, Part XII, no. 321.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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See Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware London, 1984, p. 409, no. 1704 for a similar example.

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