A LONDON DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE VASE CIRCA 1690 |

of inverted baluster form, painted in blue and outlined in dark manganese on one side of the exterior with a duck standing beneath a bird in flight and on the other side with sprays of oriental flowers above scroll and flowerhead and lappet borders on the waisted spreading foot.

Jonathan Horne, London, April, 1986, bearing label
Vogel Collection no. 447

Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part IV, Cat. no. 81

In good appearance and generally good condition, with only some typical minor glaze loss to rims. The underside of foot with an old shallow chip, and a glaze flake to edge.
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The decoration on this vase can be compared to a large vase of the same form painted with similar ducks and birds in flight, which was in the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, sold, Sotheby's, New York, October 20, 1993, lot 26; formerly in the Collection of Louis L. Lipski, sold, Sotheby's, London, March 10, 1981, lot 55, illustrated by R. J. Charleston and Donald Towner, English Ceramics, 1580-1830, London, no. 3. A further vase painted with a scene of a duck was sold at Philips, London, December 3rd, 1986, lot 71.

A smaller bleu persan vase of the same form, splashed in white, was unearthed in Sumner Street, Blackfriars, and is now in the Museum of London, see Frank Britton, London Delftware, London, 1986, p. 135, no. 99.