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An exceptional early London delftware wine bottle, circa 1630-50 image 1
An exceptional early London delftware wine bottle, circa 1630-50 image 2
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An exceptional early London delftware wine bottle, circa 1630-50 image 4
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Lot 109

An exceptional early London delftware wine bottle, circa 1630-50

15 April 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An exceptional early London delftware wine bottle, circa 1630-50

Rotherhithe or Pickleherring Pottery, Southwark, of pear shape and very small size with a simple turned neck and loped handle, painted in blue with three panels of stylised foliage separated by pairs of wavy lines, the neck with a border loosely in 'kraak' style, 12.5cm high

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Provenance
Christie's, 18 June 1984, lot 1
Graham Slater Collection

In the catalogue of the Longridge Collection vol.2, p.244, Leslie Grigsby and Michael Archer discuss dated bottles of similar shape, mentioning that while the form was popular in Northern Europe in salt-glazed stoneware, the bottle shape seems not to have been made there in tin-glazed earthenware. London examples were mostly left in the white with simple wine labels and dates, while rare bottles were painted in the manner of Chinese porcelain. The present lot is more primitive than the 'Bird on Rock' pattern associated with the Pickleherring Pottery, although the border pattern seen here painted on the neck is clearly related. Instead there is a possible link between this bottle and the so-called 'kraak' style chargers made at Southwark or Rotherhithe in the second quarter of the 17th century.

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