A London delft blue and white dated sack-bottle
A London delft blue and white dated sack-bottle

1653

Details
A London delft blue and white dated sack-bottle
1653
Of conventional globular form, with short neck and loop handle, inscribed SACK above 1653 and a calligraphic flourish (slight glaze cracks, minor bruise to shoulder to left of inscription and very slight chipping to top rim)
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high
Provenance
F. Hodgkin, sale Sotheby's, 28 March 1950, lot 74.
W.C. Cheshire, sale Sotheby's, 28 March 1961, lot 64.
Literature
Lipski and Archer, op. cit (1984), p. 333, no. 1457.

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