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An English delftware armorial tankard, dated 1644 image 1
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An English delftware armorial tankard, dated 1644

31 January 2019, 11:00 GMT
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An English delftware armorial tankard, dated 1644

Probably London, of wide cylindrical form with a thick strap handle and pronounced spreading foot, painted in blue with the arms of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, the shield, crest and supporters with simple foliate-scroll mantling, flanked by the initials W/ I·M and the date 1684, 13.5cm high, faint initials I D inscribed under the base

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sotheby's sale 4 February 1975, lot 29
With Jellinek & Sampson
Mr. & Mrs. R. Billington, Christie's sale 27 February 1989, lot 28
Syd Levethan, Longridge Collection, Christie's sale 24 January 2011, lot 101

Literature:
Illustrated by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), fig.790 and by Leslie B. Grigsby, the Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig.D245

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