A LONDON DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE VASE CIRCA 1700 |

of campana-shape affixed on either side with a rope twist handle embellished with blue dashes, the body painted and outlined in dark manganese on the front and reverse with sprays of oriental flowers, birds and butterflies.

Alistair Sampson, London, November, 1989
Vogel Collection no. 519

There is a hairline crack at the rim, measuring approximately 5.5 cm long. There is a shallow chip to underside of flared rim. Otherwise some minor typical glaze flake loss to extremities of handles and to the folded foot edge.
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The form imitates the vases produced at Nevers in the late 17th century. Frank Britton, in London Delftware, London, 1986, p. 136, nos. 100-101, illustrates two bleu persan rope-twist vases excavated in the City of London, and suggests two different production sites on the basis of the difference in ground color. A vase in blue and white was in the Louis L. Lipski Collection, sold, Sotheby's, London, November 17, 1981, lot 254. 

A very similar vase of this height and decoration is published by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 98, fig. 7.3. A vase of near identical form appears in a still life painting by the English artist Benjamin Ferrers (Fl. 1695-1732), from the Marquesses of Lothian Collection, sold, Sotheby's London, December 8th, 2016, 107. The vase although painted with Chinoiserie figures in colors, features a similar low turned rim and upturned footrim.