CIRCA 1725, RED A MARK TO UNDERSIDE, INCISED 14 TO REVERSE

There would appear to be no similar English delft polychrome cisterns recorded in the literature. The decoration, however, is broadly similar in style and palette to a conical chocolate-pot of 1705, illustrated by Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), p. 345, no. 1529, now in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; a jug of 1709 illustrated by John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg (1994), p. 73, no. 25 and a flowerpot from the Gower Collection also at Williamsburg, see ibid., p. 256, no. 611.