Lot 701
  • 701

A MINIATURE CISTERCIAN WARE THREE-HANDLED CUP 17TH CENTURY |

Estimate
300 - 500 USD
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Description

  • height 2 5/8 in.
  • 6.8 cm
of tapering form, with a brown-black glaze.

Provenance

Charles J. Lomax Collection, no. 1.TD, bearing label
Jonathan Horne, London, March, 1988
Vogel Collection no. 501

Condition

Three rim chips, the lower terminal of one handle with a hairline crack around its circumference.
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Catalogue Note

A tyg of this form, unearthed in Nottingham, is in the Glaisher Collection, at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Medieval English Pottery, London, 1972, p. 29, pl. 92.