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Lot 9
A good London delft wine bin label Circa 1760-70.
8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£800 - £1,200
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Circa 1760-70.
Of coat-hanger shape pierced with a hole for suspension, named in manganese for 'SHERRY.', 13.5cm wide (some fine glaze cracks)
Of coat-hanger shape pierced with a hole for suspension, named in manganese for 'SHERRY.', 13.5cm wide (some fine glaze cracks)
Footnotes
See Michael Archer, Delftware (1997), p 405, figs L.8 and L.9 for two similar labels attributed to the Sanders pottery, Mortlake. Archer quotes John Davies in 'The Inn Keepers' and Butlers' Guide' of 1806, where it is advised to purchase 'a few dozen delph labels with names of the different wines you keep, to hang from the top of the bins or on the outward ends of casks.'
