CIRCA 1720, PROBABLY DUTCH

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A TIN-GLAZED BLUE AND WHITE BARBER'S BOWL
CIRCA 1720, PROBABLY DUTCH
Of circular form with a broad rim with a semi-circular segment cut out for the neck, naively painted with barbers' utensils, including: shears, two razors, two combs, a mirror and a skull and cross bones, the rim pierced for hanging, crack around well and chipping and flaking to rim
10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Acquired from Jellinek & Sampson Antiques, 16 June 1978.

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Lot Essay

Frank Britton, London Delftware, London, 1987, p. 144, no. 124 illustrates a closely similar example in the Museum of London (no.A. 22310). A further example formerly in the G.E. Howard Collection is discussed in Bryony Hudson (ed.), English Delftware Drug Jars The Collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London, 2006, p. 258, Cat. 225.

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