AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE CYLINDRICAL NIGHT-LIGHT

CIRCA 1720, PROBABLY LONDON

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AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE CYLINDRICAL NIGHT-LIGHT
CIRCA 1720, PROBABLY LONDON
With sloping shoulders and flared rim above six pierced ovolos, painted with birds and insects below flowers and leaves, concentric lines and cloud scrolls
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a discussion of this form and its use see Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-Glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997, pp. 328-329, cat. nos. G.5 & G.6.

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