1630, PROBABLY CHRISTIAN WILHELM, PICKLEHERRING QUAY

Details

A SOUTHWARK DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE MUG
1630, PROBABLY CHRISTIAN WILHELM, PICKLEHERRING QUAY
Of barrel shape with short cylindrical neck, the loop handle with blue-dash ornament, painted with 'birds-on-rocks' flanked by flowering plants beneath a band of stylised drapery, flanked by two vertical panels and the date 1630 beneath the handle, the neck with a band of cable-ornament between concentric blue lines and with three concentric blue lines to the foot
4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) high

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D232.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

This is unrecorded by Lipski and Archer. The closest in profile to the present example is that in the Burnap Collection, illustrated by Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson, Kansas City, Missouri, 1967, p. 44, no. 73 and Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 157, no. 706.

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