A LONDON DELFT POLYCHROME INSCRIBED AND DATED ROYAL PORTRAIT CAUDLE-CUP
1660, SOUTHWARK, PROBABLY PICKLEHERRING QUAY
Of tapering cup form with loop handle, painted with a half-length portrait of Charles II in blue armour holding an ochre septre and with dark-manganese hair beneath his ochre and blue crown, inscribed KING/CHARLES THE 2D flanked by the inscription BE:MERY:&:WISE surrounded by flourishes and to the other side with the initials E/R:G/1660 within a flourish surround, chipping and flaking to glaze at top rim, some minor flaking to foot and to inside edge of handle, two short cracks to body and with glaze cracks
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
A LONDON DELFT POLYCHROME INSCRIBED AND DATED ROYAL PORTRAIT CAUDLE-CUP
1660, SOUTHWARK, PROBABLY PICKLEHERRING QUAY
Of tapering cup form with loop handle, painted with a half-length portrait of Charles II in blue armour holding an ochre septre and with dark-manganese hair beneath his ochre and blue crown, inscribed KING/CHARLES THE 2D flanked by the inscription BE:MERY:&:WISE surrounded by flourishes and to the other side with the initials E/R:G/1660 within a flourish surround, chipping and flaking to glaze at top rim, some minor flaking to foot and to inside edge of handle, two short cracks to body and with glaze cracks
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
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