Lot 33
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A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE BUTTON
A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE BUTTON

1661, SOUTHWARK

Details
A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE BUTTON
1661, SOUTHWARK
Initialed ·T· above the date 1667 within an octagonal cartouche radiating dash and leaf ornament
1¾ in. (4.4 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Excavated Tooley Street, Southwark.
With Jonathan Horne, London, 1996.
Literature
Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part XVI, March 1996, no. 447.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, June 1999, pp. 882-883, pl. 13.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D384.

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Lot Essay

According to Jonathan Horne, the present button, excavated from Tooley Street in Southwark, is likely a badge of office or connoted membership in a livery company. Only two others are known. For the example dated 1651 and painted in colors with a rampant lion flanked by the initials 'IH', see Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 423, no. 1773. The other was excavated north of the Tower of London at 8-11 The Crescent and is painted with the head of a crowned queen and likely emblematic of the Mercer's Company.

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