AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE HONEY JAR AND COVER CIRCA 1690 |

probably London, of flatted globular form, affixed with a single coiled handle, painted in blue and outlined in black with a bird and sprays of oriental flowers.

Jonathan Horne, London, December, 1986
Vogel Collection no. 469

The cover with nibbling to edge of flange, and four shallow chips to underside edge of rim. The base section with some loss to inner edge of rim and glaze loss. The glaze at the shoulder appearing slightly thin or misfired.
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Few examples of this form appear to be recorded in the literature. A smaller example but with similar decoration is illustrated by Michael Archer and Brian Morgan, Fair as China Dishes, English Delftware from the Collection of Mrs. Marion Morgan and Brian Morgan, Washington, 1977, p. 58, no. 33, which the authors compare to a jar and punchbowl in the same collection (nos. 31-32), the latter dated 1693. A second example closer in scale to the present lot, painted with a Chinoiserie figure, is illustrated by John. C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, 1994, p. 202, no. 405. A further example was sold, Sotheby's London, March 25, 1980, lot 23.