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Lot 138

A rare English delftware posset cup, dated 1703

20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare English delftware posset cup, dated 1703

Probably London, of bellied form, the unusual bossed scrolled handles with pronounced flattened thumbrests, painted in blue with rosettes and inscribed in large lettering 'C/W E/1703', 11.4cm high

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Provenance
Joseph V Vizcarra collection
John Philip Kassebaum collection, Sotheby's sale, 1 October 1991, lot 55

Illustrated by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), fig.945.

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