Sale 2515
New York
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24 January 2011
Price realised
USD 5,000
Estimate
A DONYATT SGRAFFITO SLIPWARE INSCRIBED AND DATED FUDDLING-CUP 1733 Formed from three conjoined baluster vessels linked by three ropetwist-molded handles, enriched in a cream-slip and blotched dark-green ground, the first vessel with the initials EH/1733 below the inscription As A Ring is Round, the second inscribed And hath no end Is above a flower-head, the third Love unto my frend above a flower-head 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 February 1982, lot 19. With Art Trading Ltd, New York, 1982.
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