Lot 72
72
TWO LONDON DELFT FLOWER VASES MODELED AS HEADS OF YOUNG CHILDREN
TWO LONDON DELFT FLOWER VASES MODELED AS HEADS OF YOUNG CHILDREN

CIRCA 1685, SOUTHWARK, PERHAPS MONTAGUE CLOSE

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TWO LONDON DELFT FLOWER VASES MODELED AS HEADS OF YOUNG CHILDREN
CIRCA 1685, SOUTHWARK, PERHAPS MONTAGUE CLOSE
Each modeled as the head and shoulders of a child, the top pierced with small apertures, his or her facial features outlined in blue, the hair in manganese and blue, the base edged with a dentil band and blue line
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 October 1983, lot 34.
John Philip Kassebaum; Sotheby's, London, 1 October 1991, lot 22.
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D348.

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Lot Essay

For an example initialed and dated 1685, see Hon. Simon Sainsbury; Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, lot 136. For a pair of initialed and dated 1685 examples, see Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 417, no. 1747 and 1747A.

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