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A large London delftware armorial punchbowl, dated 1723
17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,000 inc. premium
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Anna Burnside
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A large London delftware armorial punchbowl, dated 1723
Of deep shape on a low foot, painted in blue, the interior with the arms of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, three goats' heads around a chevron within a shield, a further goat head crest above, inscribed below the arms 'D.B 1723', within a laurel wreath cartouche, the interior border with scrolls and flowers, the outside of the bowl elaborately painted with a pair of geese repeated five times among formal floral ornament and 'ring-of-dots' motifs, the outside border decorated with floral scrolls incorporating two naked male figures, 30.6cm diam (restored crack)
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Provenance:
With Jonathan Horne
The Longridge Collection, deaccessioned prior to 2003
UK private collection
Illustrated by Leslie B Grigsby, The Longridge Collection (2000), p.342. Also illustrated and discussed by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), p.243.
Three other important pieces of dated delftware with the Company's arms are recorded, including a jug dated 1673, sold by Phillips, 3 December 1975, lot 122 and subsequently in the Simon Sainsbury collection, lot 130, and also a tankard dated 1687 in the Shelburne Museum, Vermont, illustrated by Lipski and Archer (1984), p.176, no.794. A slipware dish by Thomas Toft with the arms of the Cordwainers was sold by Bonhams 21 May 2004, lot 13.
The Cordwainers were luxury leather workers, especially makers of shoes and gloves. The name comes from the Spanish city of Cordoba where fine leather was produced. The company's armorial, formally granted on 25 June 1579, shows 'three goats heads erased argent horned and bearded or'. This was used with the motto Corio et Arte (Leather and Art).