Dated Tin-glazed Earthenware Wine Bottle

Description:

Dated Tin-glazed Earthenware Wine Bottle, England, c. 1649, probably Southwark, globular shape with narrow neck and loop handle, allover white glazed inscribed in blue "WHIT 1649," ht. 5 in.

Provenance: From the Troy Chappell Collection; Ex collection Hodgkin; Scholes; Curtis.

Literature: Illustrated in Dated English Delftware, by Lipski and Archer, illus. 1384.
Estimate $7,000-9,000

Considerable glaze loss surrounding top and footrim; large patches of glaze loss to handle and rattail; 1 3/4" hairline to shoulder with central glaze blemish.


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