CIRCA 1650-1700

Details

A LONDON DELFT CYLINDRICAL DRUG-JAR
CIRCA 1650-1700
Painted in blue and manganese with a band of alternating diminishing dash and eye-ornament, between line and dash bands (cracking to rim, areas of retouching and spray)
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D392.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

See A. Luckenbach and D. Edwards, 'Ceramics of the Lost Towns Project: 17th and early 18th Century Wares from Maryland's Western Shore', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol. 18, pt. 3, 2004, p. 569, fig. 14 for fragments of a dish with similar decoration excavated from Swan Cove, Providence.

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