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Find your local specialistAn important early English delft bottle vase
after a Chinese prototype with a round body and tall, tapering neck with a bulb beneath the rim, painted in blue around the body with a frieze of formal flowering branches including a butterfly and two very stylised birds, a formal border of ovals and chevrons around the base and shoulder, the neck with four tall panels of single plants, the bulb with five round panels of single flowerheads, alternate chevrons around the neck, 31cm (minor chipping to footrim, one patch of glaze loss on the bulb)
Footnotes
Related decoration first occurs on a series of bottles associated with Christian Wilhelm's pottery at Southwark dated around 1630, see Jonathan Horne's Catalogue, Part 4, fig. 353 for a bottle with similar borders to the present example. Related formal plant decoration, copied from Chinese porcelain, is found on various English delft dishes and bowls, including a mug dated 1669 and a jug dated 1676, illustrated by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware, figs 769 and 979. A bottle of the same shape but with Chinese figure decoration is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, illustrated by Hugh Tait, Southwark Delftware and the Potter Christian Wilhelm, fig. 28
