Lot Essay
A similar building appears on the dated bowl in the Longridge Collection, inscribed G.B.1715, see lot 1172.
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1716, BRISTOL OR PERHAPS LONDON
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AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED TWO-HANDLED CUP
1716, BRISTOL OR PERHAPS LONDON
Of flared form, the moulded loop handles with scroll terminals, the body painted with two figures seated before a building in a landscape, the reverse with a bird in flight among trailing branches beneath a border of half-paterae and pendant scrolls above a raised band, the lower part with three concentric blue circles, the underside dated 1716
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
1716, BRISTOL OR PERHAPS LONDON
Of flared form, the moulded loop handles with scroll terminals, the body painted with two figures seated before a building in a landscape, the reverse with a bird in flight among trailing branches beneath a border of half-paterae and pendant scrolls above a raised band, the lower part with three concentric blue circles, the underside dated 1716
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Mrs. Caldwell.
Captain D. Cooper; Sotheby's, 11 November 1961, lot 91.
Mr. and Mrs. Price Glover, New York.
The Estate of Edith Pitts-Curtis; Owen F. Valentine & Co., Virginia, 22 & 23 October 1994, lot 394.
Captain D. Cooper; Sotheby's, 11 November 1961, lot 91.
Mr. and Mrs. Price Glover, New York.
The Estate of Edith Pitts-Curtis; Owen F. Valentine & Co., Virginia, 22 & 23 October 1994, lot 394.
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D288.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, 155, June 1999, pp. 881-882, pl. 12.
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 216, no. 955.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, 155, June 1999, pp. 881-882, pl. 12.
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 216, no. 955.
Special notice
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