Lot Essay
A closely related wine-bottle of the same date made for John Smith, Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, probably on the occasion of his marriage to Margery Dunch at New Market All Saints is illustrated in the catalogue of delftware in the British Museum collection, see Aileen Dawson, English and Irish Delftware 1570-1840, London, 2010, pp. 108-9, no. 40 (2) where the present bottle is cited.