Lot 347
347
A LONDON DELFT DATED PORTRAIT CAUDLE CUP OF CHARLES II

DATED 1662

Details
A LONDON DELFT DATED PORTRAIT CAUDLE CUP OF CHARLES II
DATED 1662
Painted with a bust-length portrait of the Monarch in his coronation robes holding a sceptre and orb, flanked by the inscription C2/R and the date 16/62, within an arch and columns
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
Provenance
The F. Bennett-Goldney Collection; Puttick & Simpson, London, 3 April 1920, lot 100.
The Collection of the late Charles J. Lomax; Sotheby's, London, 7 April 1937, lot 16.
The J.R. Cookson Collection, Grange-over-Sands.
Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, London, 13 June 1983, lot 39.
The Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 20 January 2006, lot 13.
With Mark and Marjorie Allen, New Hampshire.
Literature
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, 1984, p. 168, no. 755

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Lot Essay

Recorded in Lipski and Archer are sixteen King Charles II portrait cups of various shapes and designs dating from 1660 to 1679. Only two are dated 1662, one of these is the present example, while the other is located in the British Museum (accession no. 1938, 3-14, 108).

Following the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658, Charles II was restored to the throne. His coronation was held in 1661. Therefore it has been suggested that the cups dated 1662 relate to his marriage to Catherine of Braganza in May of that year.

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