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An important London Delftware marriage tankard and a cover, dated 1647 image 1
An important London Delftware marriage tankard and a cover, dated 1647 image 2
Lot 97

An important London Delftware marriage tankard and a cover, dated 1647

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£15,000 - £20,000

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An important London Delftware marriage tankard and a cover, dated 1647

With a globular body and cylindrical neck, a fine turned band at the junction of the two, painted in blue with a heart pierced by two arrows and inscribed with the initials 'A' over 'SM', also three formal rosettes, the heart flanked by the date 1647, 19.5cm high, together with a 'bossed' cover of similar date (typical chips and wear) (2)

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The shape is the earliest English delftware tankard form, derived from a sixteenth century continental metal prototype, as evidenced by the band between neck and body in the same place as would be found on a silver or pewter vessels. See Louis L Lipski, Dated English Delftware (1984), p.156. Lipski records that no dated tankards are recorded in the period 1647-58. The nearest in date and shape is an example in the British Museum dated 1644 and shown at p.160, no.722.

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