Lot 4 | An English delft blue and white two-handled baluster pot and cover
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Circa 1710, London, perhaps Lambeth, or Bristol The ribbed loop handles with blue-dash ornament and twisted terminals, the body painted with travellers in a continuous wooded landscape with a castle, turreted buildings and a church among sponged trees and grasses, with birds in flight in a cloudy sky, the stepped domed cover similarly painted with figures among sponged trees, the acorn finial flanked by two ribbed loop handles (the pot with top rim reduced, with one large chip and several smaller chips, some slight flaking to handles, the cover with four pieces broken from rim and repaired and with a crack, the interior flange almost totally lacking, three rim chips, finial repaired, slight chips to footrim) See page 10 for reverse detail 121/2 in. (32 cm.) high PROVENANCE Somerley House, Hampshire. NOTES Large English delft vessels of this date and with European-style decoration would seem to be comparatively rare. For other examples of vessels decorated in this style, see F.H. Garner, op. cit. (London, 1948), pl.35 for a posset pot and cover, dated 1703, in the British Museum; Frank Britton, op. cit. (London, 1982), p.74, 4.19, for a posset pot and cover; Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware (London, 1984), no. 943, for a posset pot in the City Museum, Liverpool, which is dated 1702; and see also ibid., no. 1056 for a bowl from the Rous Lench Collection, dated 1718, also illustrated by Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part VII (London, 1987), Part VII, no. 169, which was sold at Sotheby's, 1st July 1986, lot 37. In his note on the subject Mr Horne writes that in his opinion the bowl was probably painted by immigrant decorators from the Low Countries working at Lambeth. Whether this is true of the present lot, it is currently impossible to say. However, it is interesting to note that all the above-referenced examples have a Lambeth attribution.
