AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE CYLINDRICAL CASTOR

1696, PROBABLY LONDON

Details

AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE CYLINDRICAL CASTOR
1696, PROBABLY LONDON
The stepped dome pierced with multiple small apertures, the body painted with birds, flowers and foliage below square panels of flower-head and diaper ornament, one panel inscribed with the date and initials December 16/EH/1696, the unglazed base inscribed in blue December the 16 Day above a band of rings around the central aperture
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 October 1993, lot 151.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D215.

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Lot Essay

For a castor dated 1700, see the Gautier and Garner Collection, Sotheby's, London, 1 June 1965, lot 71 and again as part of the Moreton Collection, Sotheby's, London, 27 July 1982, lot 234. Also illustrated by Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 349, no. 1545.

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