CIRCA 1670-1690, PERHAPS SOUTHWARK OR LAMBETH

Shards were excavated from the site at Newington Plantation in South Carolina from the cellar of a house documented as having burned in the Yamassee War of 1715 between British colonists and local Native American tribes. When assembled, these bits of clay, some still with traces of what appears to have been 'bleu persan' decoration, make up most of a vase similar in form to the present pair - documentary evidence of both the pot itself and of the colonial spirit that required decorative objects in the New World. See John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994, p. 18, fig. 13 and pp. 250-251, nos. 599-601 for other delft examples; also the Staffordshire slipware example in the Longridge Collection, offered as lot 39 in the present auction.