AN EXTREMELY RARE LONDON DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE TWO HANDLED CUP LATE 17TH CENTURY |

of shallow form affixed with a scroll handle on either side, painted with a Chinoiserie figure seated in an extensive landscape, with concentric circles in blue at the rims.

Jonathan Horne, London, March, 1984
Vogel Collection no. 400

There are two restored rim chips to the side showing the chinoiserie figure. The reverse side with a series of hairline cracks with minor areas of infill.
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A cup of this form and decoration type was excavated in Newgate and is now in the Museum of London. That example is additionally painted with a Turk's head to the interior and is illustrated by Frank Britton, London Delftware, London, 1986, p. 134, no. 94 who suggests Southwark as a probable production site and its likely use in a coffee house. A further cup also in the Museum of London, painted with flowers and raised on a flaring foot, is illustrated by Amanda Dunsmore (ed.) This Blessed Plot, This Earth, English Pottery Studies in Honour of Jonathan Horne, London, 2011, p. 186, fig. 4.