AN ENGLISH SLIPWARE TWO-HANDLED CUP CIRCA 1700-20 |

trailed in brown slip on either side of the cream-ground bulbous body beneath a band of dots around the slightly everted rim, set with two small loop handles.

Roger Bacon Collection, Skinner Auctioneers, Boston, Massachusetts, September 24-25, 1982
John S. Walton, Griswold, Connecticut, October, 1982
Vogel Collection no. 378.2

In good appearance. There are four flat chips to the underside of the slightly flaring rim. Some glaze loss to edge of rim and one handle, the other handle with minor glaze loss to extremities. Fine glaze crazing, the interior with some associated minor light staining.
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Further single and two handled cups of this type are illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, London, 2000, Vol. 1, p. 123, S62-S64. Another cup was in the Collection of Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court, sold, Sotheby's, London, July 1 1986, lot 88.