AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE MINIATURE TANKARD LATE 17TH CENTURY |

probably London, of cylindrical shape and with flared foot, painted around the exterior with a seated Chinoiserie figure in a garden.

Sampson & Horne, London, March, 1995
Vogel Collection no. 605

Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part XV, Cat. no. 416

There is a curving hairline crack to rim to the right of the handle, measuring approximately 2.5cm long. There are two shallow chips to the foot rim, and some typical glaze loss to both rims.
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Miniature objects in English Delftware are rare survivals and few are recorded in the literature. The 'Chinaman in Grasses' motif would suggest a production date at the end of the 17th century. A blue and white miniature mug painted with pagodas was in the Longridge Collection, sold, Christie's South Kensington, November 3, 2011, lot 275. A small mug, 7cm high, painted in blue and manganese, attributed to Lambeth, is illustrated by Anthony Ray, English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, London, 1968, pl. 91, no. 187.