Lot 25
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A LONDON DELFT WHITE FLUTED POSSET-POT AND COVER
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A LONDON DELFT WHITE FLUTED POSSET-POT AND COVER

CIRCA 1650-55, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK

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A LONDON DELFT WHITE FLUTED POSSET-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1650-55, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK
Of squat form with curved spout and grooved loop handles, the domed cover with button finial, three cracks to rim, crack to rim of cover, chip to inside rim of cover, some chipping and flaking to rims, tip of spout and edge of handles, glaze cracks
6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale Sotheby's London, 25th February 1986, lot 43.
Acquired from Alistair Sampson, London, 17th March 1986.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Examples of similar forms can be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Michael Archer, Delftware the Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, a Catalogue of the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997, p. 262, nos. D.10 & D.11. A cylindrical example with similar fluting can be seen in Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, London, 2000, p. 299, no. D274.

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