1661, SOUTHWARK

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A LONDON DELFT DATED ROYAL PORTRAIT CAUDLE-CUP
1661, SOUTHWARK
Of squat baluster form with loop handle, painted in manganese, ochre, blue and orange with a half-length portrait of Charles II in his coronation robes holding his orb and sceptre flanked by the initials C²R and the date 1661 within an ochre and blue arch, the underside with two manganese brush strokes to the unglazed base
4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm.) high

Provenance

With Nicholas Thomas, London.
John Philip Kassebaum; Sotheby's, London, 1 October 1991, lot 11.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D239.
Leslie B. Grigsby, Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection, 155, June 1999, p. 879, pl. 6.
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 167, no. 753.

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Lot Essay

A similar example of the same date was sold in the Rooms, 17 April 2000, lot 12, another dated 1662 was also sold in these Rooms, 13 June 1983, lot 39 and subsquently in the Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 20 January 2006, lot 13.

See also a mug from the Margaret Cadman Collection, with a half-length portrait of the crowned King in armour dated 1660, sold Christie's South Kensington, 11 October 2002, lot 1.

Comparable examples in the Museum of London are illustrated by Frank Britton, London Delftware, London, 1987, p. 123, nos. 72-74.

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