ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE VASE CIRCA 1730-50

Possibly London, painted on either side with a stylized flower and on the sides with an insect or bird in flight. 

Ginsburg & Levy, New York;
Skinner Auctioneers, Boston, Katherine Prentis Murphy Collection, September 24, 1983.

There is an approximate 4-inch long haircrack running down the side of the rim and curving at the neck; there is an associated small rimchip. There is another 1-inch haircrack running down the rim and further minor typical chipping to the rim edge.
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A similarly-decorated vase of the same form is attributed as 'possibly London' and is illustrated in John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, p. 254, cat no. 607. Other vases of this form with different decorations are illustrated in Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-glazed Earthenware of The British Isles, p. 372, cat. nos. I. 18-19.