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An exceptional London delftware 'bossed' tankard, dated 1653 image 1
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Lot 143

An exceptional London delftware 'bossed' tankard, dated 1653

31 January 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An exceptional London delftware 'bossed' tankard, dated 1653

Of tall cylindrical form tapering slightly inwards and decorated with 'bossed' ornament in neat rows, inscribed in blue on the front with a crowned cartouche inscribed B./G.W. 1653, flanked by scrollwork and with a grotesque mask below, 19cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
6th Marquess of Bute, Christie's sale 5 December 1994, lot 3
Syd Levethan, Longridge Collection, Christie's sale 10 June 2010, lot 1047

Literature:
Illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, the Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig.D235

Exhibited:
The Merchant's House, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 2010-2018

After throwing, the rows of small bosses were individually pushed through the soft clay to create a subtle and most pleasing effect. A specialty of the Southwark potters, bossed wares were mostly left in plain white, such as a white tankard of identical form also in the Longridge Collection and shown alongside the present lot in Leslie Grigsby's catalogue, p.263. A posset pot with similar bossing, in the Glaisher Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, is painted in blue with a related cartouche dated 1651, see Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware, fig.889 and also the Glaisher Collection Catalogue, pl.85b, fig.1319.

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