TWO ENGLISH DELFTWARE DISPENSING POTS FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY |

each of cylindrical form with a slightly flaring foot and rim, the larger pot painted in blue with a band of triangle lozenges and horizontal stripes in blue, the shorter pot with alternating yellow and blue horizontal stripes.

Vogel Collection no. 453.2

Each with fine glaze crazing with some associated staining to body. Glaze loss and nibble chips to rims.
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Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, London, 2013, p. 315. J.2, illustrates a pot of similar size to the shorter example with blue and orange stripes, where the author notes the type is not of sufficient quality to merit export from the Netherlands, and attributes it to London. A pot decorated in the pattern of the larger piece was among a large group of delftware jars recently excavated in 14-18 Gresham Street in the City of London which may have belonged to a Dr Scarborough, who had an apothecary in nearby Wood Street between 1650-69. For further reading on this excavation see Sadie Watson, Urban development in the north-west of Londinium: excavations at 120–122 Cheapside to 14–18 Gresham Street, City of London, Museum of London Archaeology, 2015.