A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE WASSAIL BOWL
Lot 138

A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE WASSAIL BOWL

1693

Closed18 June 2008

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GBP 25,000

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A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE WASSAIL BOWL
1693
The interior painted in blue and with manganese trekking with a bird perched on bamboo and flowering camelia issuing from pierced rockwork within a circular cartouche and a border of scrolling foliage and meandering manganese tendrils with pale-green leaves, the exterior with a goose, birds and insects among flowering shrubs and branches, the date 1693. below a blue line, the lower-part with a band of meandering scrolls, on a stepped circular foot with radiating lappets filled with scrolls and flowers, two restored cracks to body and restored chipping and flaking to rim, some minor flaking to rims
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) diameter

Acquired from Jonathan Horne, 11 November 1983.

Specialist note

A wassail bowl with closely similar decoration from the S. M. Taylor Collection is in the City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham (39'41).