1662

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A LONDON DELFT DATED ROYAL DOUBLE PORTRAIT JUG
1662
Of globular form with flared cylindrical neck and grooved blue loop handle, painted predominantly in blue with the half-length portrait of Charles II and Queen Catherine in their coronation robes flanked by the initials CR<->2 and ^DQK with manganese hair and robes lightly enriched in ochre with the initials M/H.S./1662 above within a ogival cartouche, on a ground of chinoiserie figures and turreted buildings among rockwork and trees between blue band and line rims, the shoulder with a raised band of cable-ornament, the neck with a pinched lip flanked by two dimples and with a band of scrolling flowers and foliage, the lower part with a band of chevron and foliage-ornament on a spreading circular foot
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 1960, lot 15.
Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Christie's, London, 29 May 1990, lot 5.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D296.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, 155, June 1999, pp. 878-879, pl. 5.
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delft, London, 1984, p. 220, no. 974.

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Lot Essay

Only one other jug bearing a royal portrait is recorded and is dated 1660, the year Charles II was restored to the throne. The present jug commemorates his marriage to Catherine of Braganza in 1662. After a proxy marriage in Portugal on 23 April, Catherine arrived at Portsmouth a few weeks later and in May, the royal couple were married in two ceremonies, a secret Catholic ceremony and a public Anglican ceremony on 21 May.

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