A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE BLEEDING BOWL

DATED 1765, INITIALED EEB

Details

A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE BLEEDING BOWL
Dated 1765, initialed EEB
Of typical form with a heart-pierced handle, the interior and exterior painted with a cottage, that in the interior also with a fence and tree; together with a delft tile painted in blue in the Chinese style with houses by the shore reserved within an octagonal panel on the powdered manganese ground, the angles with quartered flowerheads
6½in. (16.5cm.) wide overall, the bowl (2)

Provenance

Louis. L. Lipski Collection, no. 1214, Sotheby & Co. London, 22 December 1959, lot 49 (the bowl)
With Mark Allen, Putnam Valley, NY, 1981 (the bowl)

Literature

Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, no. 1244 (the bowl)

Lot Essay

The heart-shaped pierce of the handle on the present bowl is associated with a London origin. As the bowl has only one handle, it is described as a bleeding bowl. Porringers, although similar in shape, generally have two. Cf. F.H. Garner and Michael Archer, English Delftware, London, 1972 ed., p. 14