TWO ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE FOOTED FLOWER VASES LATE 17TH CENTURY |

each of globular form upon on a spreading foot, set around the stepped shoulder with three apertures alternating with three scroll devices beneath the wavy rim edge, painted and outlined in dark manganese, one with two Chinoiserie figures seated in a garden, the other with a duck and bird amidst plants and flowers.

Ginsburg & Levy, New York, February, 1973
Vogel Collection no. 172

The example in the left of the catalogue illustration, Three restored sections to edge of footrim, two of the apertures with restored rims chips and third completely restored with an associated restored chip to the wavy rim above it. The example in the right of the illustration, a restored chip to footrim edge, two of the apertures with restored rims chips and third completely restored. The rim with a restored chip. The repair has discolored and could be refreshed. Typical glaze nibble chips to extremities.
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Three vases of this form are illustrated by John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, 1994, pp.  250-251, nos. 599-601, two of which have similar Chinoiserie decoration to the present lot. The author notes that fragments of a vessel of this form have been excavated at Jamestown Island, Virginia. Three further examples bearing dates 1650, 1661 and 1683 are illustrated by Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer in Dated English Delftware, Tin-glazed Earthenware 1600-1800, London, 1984, pp. 355-356, nos. 1564, 1565 and 1567, the latter example decorated in a similar manner with a seated Chinoiserie figure in a garden.