An English Delftware Polychrome Model of a Shoe, Dated 1722
No reserve
Auction Closed
February 8, 09:14 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
probably Lambeth, London or Bristol, in the form of a heeled shoe, with a molded oval buckle, painted in shades of blue, green and iron-red with panels of flowers and insects within scrolling foliage, the high heel with leaf-ornament, the underside initialed and dated A / T. P / 1722
height 4 5/8 in.
11.7 cm
Mrs. Coleman Curtis;
The Estate of Mrs. Edith Pitts-Curtis, Owen F. Valentine & Co. Virginia, 22-23 October 1994, lot 385;
Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection, Christie's London, 25 May 2011, lot 186;
Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.
L. L. Lipski and M. Archer, Dated English Delftware, Tin-Glazed Earthenware 1600-1800, London 1984, p.413, no. 1727
L. B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, June 1999, 155, no. 6, pp. 882-883, pl. 13
L. B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Vol. II, London 2000, cat. no. D361
For a similarly decorated shoe initialed and dated KB 1710, see Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, London 1982, Part. II, no. 35.
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