A LONDON DELFT WHITE 'CURLES' SALT
A LONDON DELFT WHITE 'CURLES' SALT

THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY

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A LONDON DELFT WHITE 'CURLES' SALT
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
The shallow circular bowl with a piecrust rim issuing three scrolls, on a conical foot
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) high; 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) diameter
Provenance
F.H. Garner; Sotheby's, London, 2 March 1965, lot 156.
Edith Pitts-Curtis: Owen F. Valentine & Co., Virginia, 22-23 October 1994, lot 387.
With Price Glover, New York, 1994.
Literature
F.H. Garner, English Delftware, London, 1948, pl. 8A.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D209.

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Decorated salts of this metalwork form are also known, including a blue and white 1675 dated example in the Longridge Collection, see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection, Vol. II, D208. Shards of white examples have been excavated at Jamestown, Virginia. See John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994, p. 189, no. 370 for a white example of this form in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg. Also see p. 19, fig. 17 for the example at the New Haven Historical Society known to have been owned by James Heaton of New Haven, Connecticut who died in 1712. For the white example in the British Museum and a discussion of the Jamestown excavation, see Aileen Dawson, The British Museum - English & Irish Delftware 1570-1840, London, 2010, p. 232, no. 102.

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