AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE CHINOISERIE PUZZLE-JUG

THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, LONDON OR PERHAPS BRISLINGTON

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AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE CHINOISERIE PUZZLE-JUG
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, LONDON OR PERHAPS BRISLINGTON
With triple-nozzle rim, knopped and pierced tapering neck, globular body and shaped foot, painted with a running or dancing figure in a landscape with a pavilion, rockwork and bushes, initialed I·P above a flourish, between concentric lines
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high

Provenance

The Estate of Adelaide Stein Miller; Sotheby's, New York, 10 October 1990, lot 477.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D299.

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Lot Essay

For similar examples of this early type of puzzle-jug with a narrow heavily pierced neck, see Frank Britton, London Delftware, London, 1987, p. 133, no. 91 and Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, pp. 229-230, nos. 1011 and 1015.

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