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A London delftware wine bottle, dated 1644 image 1
A London delftware wine bottle, dated 1644 image 2
Offered in support of Art Fund
Lot 110

A London delftware wine bottle, dated 1644

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

Sold for £6,656 inc. premium

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A London delftware wine bottle, dated 1644

Probably Southwark, of small size, the globular body raised on a small, spreading foot, the strap handle with a pointed lower terminal, inscribed in blue 'SACK 1644' above a curlicue flourish, 13.2cm high

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Provenance
Marion and Brian Morgan Collection
With Jonathan Horne, 1983
Graham Slater Collection

Illustrated by Michael Archer and Brian Morgan, Fair as China Dishes (1977), p.30, item 11. Also illustrated by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), p315, no.1290.

"...and so to the Dolphin...there we did drink a great quantity of sack and did tell many merry stories, and in good humours we were all." Samuel Pepys' diary, 14 November 1660.

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