A rare London delftware Royal portrait caudle cup dated 1674

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Description

10cm., 4in. high

of squat baluster form, painted in blue, maganese, yellow and orange with a half-length portrait of Charles II in coronation robes holding an orb and sceptre, flanked by the initials CR between two palm leaves, further inscribed on the sides T.R and the date 1674

Exhibited

Formerly on loan at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

Literature

Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, 1984, p.172, no 774

Catalogue Note

Fifteen cups painted with portraits of King Charles II and dated from 1660 to 1679 are illustrated by Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, 1984, pp. 166-74. An example dated 1662 was recently sold Sotheby's New York, The Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection, 20th January 2006, lot 13. The date of 1674 on the present cup may relate to the end of the third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674)