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Lot 23

A London delftware taster, a globular mug and a thistle-shaped coffee cup, 17th and 18th century

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A London delftware taster, a globular mug and a thistle-shaped coffee cup, 17th and 18th century

The shallow bowl or taster with two 'S'-shaped handles, painted with plants in blue, 11.2cm across (chipped), the globular or 'gorge' shaped mug with a straight neck banded in manganese, formal blue painting on the body, 11.5cm high (fine crack in handle), the thistle shaped capuchine or coffee cup painted with a formal Chinese landscape, 7.7cm (handle restuck) (3)

Footnotes

A taster of the same shape in the Museum of London, excavated in Newgate is painted inside with a Turk's head, suggesting it was used in a coffee house. See Frank Britton, London Delftware (1986), p.134, fig.94. Another example raised on a spreading foot is also in the Museum of London, see Hazel Forsyth's paper on coffeehouses in 'This Blessed Plot, This Earth' (2011), p.186, fig.4. The pattern on the coffee cup has been linked to delft potteries at Vauxhall or Norfolk House. For a related 'gorge' shaped mug in the Bristol collection with a plain manganese neck see Frank Britton, English Delftware (1982), p.92, fig.6.21.

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